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DVB Completes Major Refactoring Work of GEM and MHP Specifications

The DVB continues to support the GEM and the DVB-MHP Specifications with major work to align the specifications in a more cohesive, clear and organised fashion in order to better facilitate... Read More

DVB Completes Major Refactoring Work of GEM and MHP Specifications

The DVB continues to support the GEM and the DVB-MHP Specifications with major work to align the specifications in a more cohesive, clear and organised fashion in order to better facilitate companies wishing to implement the DVB open standard middleware. The purpose of the re-factoring was to change the order of referencing between MHP and GEM. Read More

DVB Completes Major Refactoring Work of GEM and MHP Specifications

The DVB continues to support the GEM and the DVB-MHP Specifications with major work to align the specifications in a more cohesive, clear and organised fashion in order to better facilitate companies wishing to implement the DVB open standard middleware. The purpose of the re-factoring was to change the order of referencing between MHP and GEM. Read More

DTT coverage reaches 95.15%

DTT coverage in Spain has reached 95.15% of the population and services are accessed by 58.7% of households. During April over 615,000 DTT Read More

Pay TV services to be allowed

Le Pais reports that the Government has formally launched the legal process to allow the introduction of Pay-TV services on the DTT platform. The Read More

Available programmes increase

According to Broadband TV News viewers in Warsaw, Poznan, Kraków and Zielona Góra are now able to receive the regional station TV Puls as well Read More

DVB-H mobile TV service agreement

Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has signed an agreement with Nokia and DMTV concerning the DVB-H mobile TV service in the country. The agreement Read More

Rome completes first phase ASO

The first phase of Analogue Switch Off (ASO) has been completed in Rome and the surrounding area with the switch of Raidue and Retequattro. All Read More

New service on DTT platform

The commercial broadcaster TV Prima has launched a new DTT services called R1 aimed at female viewers, reports Broadband TV News. The new service Read More

Final part of ASO completed June 12th 2009

All high power analogue TV transmissions were switched off on the 12th June 2009 marking the end of the US transition to DTT. A few low power Read More

Final HD slot for Five

Ofcom has announced that it expects to licence the final HD slot on Multiplex B to “Five” subject to certain items in its application being Read More

Government HD proposals soon

The government is expected to present proposals on how HD services are to be implemented on the DTT platform to the Consejo Asesor de Read More