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Good news for DVB-T2! Humax has just announced its brand new DVB- T2 set-top box capable of receiving the new UK Freeview HD platform. This pushes the deployment of DVB-T2 boxes ahead. On the transmission side things are moving as well, with new HD channels and locations being added in the UK. In other DVB-T2 news: Austria will be the first country in its region to start testing DVB-T2 during the Soccer World Cup this Summer. Read More
Communications regulator Ofcom has given approval to the BBC and Arqiva to jointly make available capacity for two additional DTT services. The Read More
Humax has announced the launch of what is thought to be the first DTT receiver capable of receiving the new UK Freeview HD platform. The Humax Read More
Impulsa TDT reported in the February newsletter that DTT penetration reached 80.8% of households by the end of January 2010. Penetration was Read More
The New Zealand Freeview platform has seen its highest growth since its launch in 2007 according to a recent press release. During the last Read More
The Latvian pay-DTT provider Lattelecom has announced the addition of two new channels to its DTT offer. The new channels are TV6 and 3+. The Read More
The Austrian Broadcasting Service ORS plans to launch the country’s first DVB-T2 trial during the Soccer World Cup this summer. ORS which is 60% Read More
DVB is pleased to announce that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has formally adopted as standards the new release versions of the MHP 1.2.2 (Multimedia Home Platform)... Read More
DVB is pleased to announce that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has formally adopted as standards the new release versions of the MHP 1.2.2 (Multimedia Home Platform) and GEM 1.2.2 (Globally Executable MHP) specifications. This marks the culmination of the refactoring work that makes GEM a self-contained specification. GEM now takes over the role of DVB’s primary middleware specification, and MHP becomes a derived specification based on GEM. Read More
Viewers are now able to check whether they can currently receive HD DTT services in their location or when they will be able to, simply by entering Read More
The DTT roll-out in the Ukraine has been further extended by the launch of DTT from nine new transmission sites. This has almost doubled the number Read More
The Spanish public service broadcaster RTVE plans to launch an HD service called TVEHD on its second multiplex. The multiplex will have a coverage Read More
