MPEG-H Audio selected for the next generation TV 3.0 broadcast system in Brazil

Under the name “TV 3.0 Project”, the Brazilian Terrestrial Television System Forum (SBTVD) has issued the Call for Proposals (CfP) for a next generation Brazilian digital TV system, in July 2020.

After a very strict testing and evaluation phase conducted by independent laboratories, and considering market and intellectual property aspects of all the candidate technologies, the SBTVD Forum. has selected the VVC video codec and the MPEG-H Audio system, for the next generation TV 3.0 broadcast system in Brazil.

This lecture provides an overview of the MPEG-H Audio system and the TV 3.0 Project requirements for the audio component.