On March 4th, Samsung announced the first mobile with a integrated digital television receptor. This new gadget will be fabricated on Brazil and sold initially by Vivo.
The V820L costs between R$1.600 and R$1.800 depending on the operator and the plan choosen by the consumer. Besides receive the digital television signal, it is a 3G model with a 2.0 MP camera, OLED screen, bluetooth and expandable memory.
This is one more option for those who works with digital television, just like me, providing a new environment to write applications and services for this kind of technology. Although, the digital television in Brazil is just at the beginning with only 50 thousands converters sold. So, we will have to wait (I don’t know for how long) the brazilian digital television system enhance its area’s transmition and become popular, when some work maybe appear for us.
I hope that it doesn’t take too much time to happen.
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Fernando
In Brazil, the digital television was, and still is, cause of much discussion. I will not describe the whole history here, but who wants to know more about the brazilian digital television system can visit http://www.forumsbtvd.org.br/ .
I live in Recife, Pernambuco, and as you can see in the link above, the digital transmitions don’t work here yet. However, in Recife we can find one of the most brazilian innovation center in this area: C.E.S.A.R. (www.cesar.org.br) and it’s Digital Television Team, wich I participate.
There, we have been creating interactive tv applications. So we have 2 diferents groups: OpenTV and NCL, each one with your specific middleware. In Brazil, the sbtvd forum have choosen the Ginga ( a middleware 100% made in Brazil) as the standard brazilian middleware, and NCL corresponds one of its parts.
NCL (Nested Context Language) is a declarative language created by the Telemidia Center of Rio de Janeiro PUC University and the language I have been working for 4 months. With NCL we are able to write interactive applications to the Ginga Middleware and I confess here, it´s a very cool activity.
Who wants to write application to Ginga with NCL can visit http://www.softwarepublico.gov.br/spb/ and look for Ginga community. There is a lot of things there.
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Fernando
