 Many of these have not yet selected a format for digital terrestrial broadcasts (DTTV) and a few (Canada, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, South Korea and the United States) have chosen ATSC instead of DVB-T.

DVB-T broadcasts were launched by the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki on 9 December 2009.Broadcasts are using H.264, with the University of Nairobi supplying the decoders.Kenya has also been broadcasting DVB-H since July 2009, available on selected Nokia and ZTE handsets on the Safaricom and other GSM networks.