The licensing fee for ATSC receivers will be US$5 per unit. Up to now it has been impossible to know what license fees would be payable by manufacturers to the holders of essential technology patents in the ATSC system. This has been in contrast to situation for DVB-T where a patent pool has been in existence for some years now, with the maximum cost per receiver set at around $1 ( i.e. a maximum of 0.75 EUR).
This could all be very significant for Latin America, where the costs of receivers, and specifically set-top boxes, will be a crucial factor. When we talk about a STB costing in or around $30-$50, the difference between $5 per box and $1 per box in licensing fees becomes quite significant.
http://www.mpegla.com/atsc/atsc-agreement.cfm
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