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Paolo Romani, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, has said that bringing forward the countries Analogue Switch Off (ASO) date to 2011 Read More
Mediaset and Telecom Italia, have both announced plans to launch new services on the DTT platform and Mediaset new receiving equipments to make Read More
The two week deadline given to the Eircom backed One Vision consortium for a decision in April culminated in the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Read More
The number of DVB-T MPEG-4 receivers sold in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 33% over the previous quarter according to an Antenna Hungária Read More
ZUUMtv, the Pay DTT platform, is to add two new services to its multiplex in June. The new services will be Eurosport 2 and Sony Entertainment Read More
Join DVB CM-3DTV Chairman David Wood on June 4th for a Webinar to find out! The Webinar will outline the elements of 3D TV systems, and to relate them to the commercial requirements that are being considered within DVB. The webinar will explain why it is likely that there will be two phases of 3D TV systems and what the main consequences will be for 3D TV standards. The webinar will also consider timescales for the DVB Project, and the relationship of the DVB work to the work being done in other bodies. Read More
Exciting times in South Africa! No, not the upcoming World Cup in June, but the fact that the government is suddenly reviewing its 2006 decision to adopt DVB-T as its national digital terrestrial television standard. Last week DVB presented the strong case for DVB-T and DVB-T2 at two meetings in the region and received strong support from the South African broadcast industry. Read More
The IBM Technical library has released a series of 3 articles on how to start coding OCAP applications: “Getting Started with OCAP”. You can view the tutorial articles here: Read More
On April 22 Germany’s Technische Universitaet Braunschweig carried out the first-ever live DVB-C2 transmission. This milestone test showed that all the predictions were correct and confirmed that DVB-C2 can offer a capacity increase of 60% compared to DVB-C. On May 4th, the ReDeSign Project demonstrated the world’s first public DVB-C2 live transmission at ANGA Cable 2010. This again demonstrated the capabilities of the system and the availability of DVB-C2 equipment. Read More
Last month DVB-T2 has been on the move again! DVB-T2 is making strong progress in the UK market with the Freeview HD service expected to cover 50% of the UK by the start of the World Cup in June. Austria has launched the first DVB-T2 trail in its region, and the DVB Project demonstrated the first end-to-end DVB-T2 chain at NAB in Las Vegas. Read More
Last month DVB-T2 has been on the move again! DVB-T2 is making strong progress in the UK market with the Freeview HD service expected to cover 50% of the UK by the start of the World Cup in June. Austria has launched the first DVB-T2 trail in its region, and the DVB Project demonstrated the first end-to-end DVB-T2 chain at NAB in Las Vegas. Read More
Italian broadcast group Mediaset, which offers free and paid services over digital terrestrial, views Connected TV as an important opportunity to expand the reach of its content, expand its... Read More
