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ASO date announced for North-Contentin and Cherbourg

The CSA has announced that analogue services in the region of North Contentin and Cherbourg will end on the 18th November 2009. The switch to Read More

ORF MHP makeover completed

The Austrian public broadcaster ORF has announced that it has competed its programme of MHP updates that started last December. The upgraded Read More

Government offers help package for DTT transition

The Government has announced a pilot package of measures to drive the availability of improved television services as Australia makes the Read More

Next Generation RCS Call for Technologies released

DVB has today released a Call for Technologies inviting the submission of candidate technologies that could be considered for inclusion in a future DVB interactive satellite communications system. Read More

DVB-T2: SISVEL Announces Development of a Joint Patent Licensing Program and Issues a Call

A press release issued today by SISVEL announces that it will act as the facilitator for the formation of a joint patent licensing programme for DVB-T2. It has issued a call for essential patents in DVB's second generation terrestrial transmission system, due to be published by ETSI in the coming months. Read More

Concern over lack of interactive STB’s

José Luis Vázquez, CEO of interactive TV company Mirada, recently commented that up until now there are only a few interactive boxes which allow Read More

DTT plans progress

Despite recent disagreements, the Polish Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has reached a compromise with the National Broadcasting Council Read More

Revised ASO plan announced

The Ministry of Communications has issued a revised schedule for the switch off of analogue services during 2009 which includes some delays. In Read More

New DVB-H trial underway

A new DVB-H mobile trial is now underway in Sydney. The trial coordinated by the Australian Industry (Ai) Group’s Australian Digital Suppliers Read More

Creating Blu-ray Applications

Our attention has been drawn to a couple of useful tutorials on the Sun Developer Network introducting application development using BD-J, the GEM based platform used for interactive applications... Read More

New legislation proposes 12th June 2009 as new DTV transition date

Sen. Jay Rockefeller said he believes the country is not ready to make the transition to DTV. Following a request by the Obama administration, Read More

Broadband plan to replace Digital Dividend auction

The much touted sale of spectrum released through the Digital Dividend could be abandoned under proposals being considered by the UK’s Read More