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Trial HD/DTT services continue

HD/DTT services which were originally started for the Olympics are continuing as a trial service in Ljubljana. The transmissions are on two UHF Read More

Programme slots offered for tender

The Portuguese government is inviting candidates to tender for slots on the country’s free-to-air DTT platform. Applications must be submitted Read More

New Media Law being considered

Hungary may soon have a new Media Law, reports Broadband TV News. The website attributes index.hu, Fidesz and MSZP as the sources of the Read More

Government provides funding for DSO

The French government has announced that it will make €320 million available to support the digital switchover process. €120 million of this Read More

VOD on DTT from TDF

TDF, the transmission network provider, has offered broadcasters the opportunity to test Vision On Demand (VOD) in early 2009. This offers users Read More

Adoption under 200,000 DTT STB’s so far

Brazil, which is the only country to use the Japanese ISDB-T standard outside Japan estimates that 200,000 DTT STB’s have been sold since the Read More

Pay TV operators left out of DSO plans

Austar chief executive John Porter has said that Pay TV had all but been excluded from the planning and marketing of the switch to digital Read More

Useful resource for developers

We’ve just added a new link to the list of developer resources. It’s a link to the Broadcast Signing Engine, a Java based tool for the digital signing of MHP applications. Download the... Read More

GEM “Headless Devices”

Last month’s DVB Steering Board meeting approved a new GEM specification titled “Application Gateway and Media Server Fragment”. This specification is now available for download as DVB... Read More

New Industry Proposal Would Kill Over The Air Television

A major think tank has just called on the FCC to completely eliminate free over-the-air television and make all channels available for broadband Read More

ICO Receives Experimental License for 2 GHz Testing In Nevada

ICO Satellite Services, has received a new experimental license to use 2000-2020 MHz to "test mobile earth station terminals to validate Read More

BSkyB increases subscribers

Chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, said the business, now has 9.067 million subscribers, an increase of 87,000. He also said that the company is Read More