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The DVB Steering Board has approved the membership of Freeview New Zealand and HD Forum Italia. Representatives of both will now participate in DVB’s various working groups, contributing to the development of timely open specifications to enable interoperability across the global media distribution ecosystem. Freeview New Zealand Freeview NZ… Read More

The DVB Project has signed a formal liaison agreement with the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA), reflecting a desire on the part of both organizations to collaborate closely on developing specifications for video distribution. The SVTA is a global technical association addressing critical challenges in streaming video. It aims… Read More

The next edition of the DVB Project’s annual event that promises “conversations that matter on the future of media delivery” will take place in Amsterdam on 17 and 18 March 2026. It will once again be built around the unconference format, which has proved both popular and productive within the… Read More

DVB has published a new version of its DVB-I specification, DVB BlueBook A177r7, which defines the framework for discovering and delivering television services over broadband and broadcast networks. This update comes at a time of growing global interest in DVB-I, with numerous trials and pilots under way as the… Read More

The DVB Project has published the final report of a study mission that examined the potential role of Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) in DVB services. The work took place under DVB’s commercial working group on audio and video coding, CM-AVC. It was led by Ken McCann, representing Dolby. Film grain… Read More

The Steering Board of the DVB Project has approved the membership of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA), the public radio and television company owned by the government of Catalonia and known since 2023 under the name 3Cat. CCMA/3Cat Headquartered in Barcelona, CCMA/3Cat’s mission is to act as a… Read More

In the world of satellite connectivity, a new generation of networks is revolutionizing how we connect across the globe. So-called Non-Geosynchronous Satellite Orbit (NGSO) constellations are networks of satellites orbiting the Earth at lower altitudes and higher speeds than traditional geostationary satellites. Such systems (examples below*) aim to deliver… Read More

John Moulding With a promise of anonymity, three TV manufacturers provided me with a picture of their work cycles, along with messages about their readiness to embrace rapid innovation, tempered by the need for standards developing organizations (SDOs) to complete specifications in good time and for regulators to understand why… Read More

In a busy few weeks, the DVB Project has been actively engaged in Asia, participating in BroadcastAsia 2025 in Singapore and co-organizing a workshop in Indonesia. These initiatives demonstrate DVB’s ongoing commitment to fostering industry collaboration and advancing next-generation television technologies in the region. DVB at BroadcastAsia At BroadcastAsia 2025,… Read More

Jan Outters, who is Director of Technology & Standards at Ateme, has been elected as Chair of the DVB Commercial Module. He will thus play a key role in shaping DVB’s work over the coming years, leading the group that captures the business needs that DVB specifications must serve. With… Read More

At a workshop in Jakarta yesterday, the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digital (KOMDIGI) announced the establishment of a regulatory sandbox framework to facilitate trials and launches of new media technologies like DVB-I and DVB-NIP (Native IP broadcasting). The workshop was jointly organized by the DVB Project and IEEE… Read More

Jan Outters (Ateme) and Anand Meher Kotra (Qualcomm) In 2022, DVB updated its core specification for the use of video and audio coding with implementation profiles for the codecs AVS3 and VVC, paving the way for another leap in video distribution. The initiation of this work had received strong backing… Read More