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3 Italia acquires channel for nationwide DVB-H service

3 Italia has signed an agreement with the Profit Group to acquire Channel 7 according to Advanced-Television.com. Channel 7 holds a network licence Read More

Shortlist for DTT launch

Six applicants have now been short listed for the launch of Ireland's 24 month DTT pilot. The short listed companies are Arqiva, BT, Chorus, National Read More

DTT reaches one million homes

According to the market research institute GFK, Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) may be received in over 1,035 million French homes amounting to a Read More

Ofcom begins the Digital Dividend Review (DDR)

Ofcom announced on the 17th October, the start of the Digital Dividend Review, a project which will examine the options arising from the release of Read More

Nokia predicts a commercial DVB-H launch by the end of 2006

VP of Strategy and Business Development EMEA for Nokia, Serge Ferre, said he was for a launch in Spain of the DVB-H based mobile TV system in 2006, Read More

DTT boxes take off in Spain

The forthcoming launch of free to air DTV is driving up the sales of set-top boxes according to an article on the advanced-television website. Over Read More

Digital switch-over by 2012

The Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti has announced that Slovenia would probably switch from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting in 2012. Read More

Digital Broadcasting Launched

Digital TV broadcasting was launched in the Czech Republic on the 21st October 2005. Up to 2 million people in the Prague area can now receive Read More

Major Milestone for Content Protection

Geneva, 21 November 2005 - The publication of DVB Bluebook A094 - Content Protection & Copy Management (DVB-CPCM) - signals a major milestone in the work of the DVB Project on a specification for persistent protection for commercial content in consumer digital products and home networks. The document can be downloaded now from the Technology section of this site. Read More

HDTV on Terrestrial Network and DVB-H demo soon

As a world first, Teracom made a public demonstration of HDTV on the DTT platform using the MPEG-4 AVC video compression standard. Other partners Read More

DTT re-launch on November 30th 2005

Spain is ramping up for the re-launch of its Digital Terrestrial TV services on the 30th November. Each commercial broadcaster currently on the Read More

Treasury funds digital broadcasting network upgrade

The Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, confirmed that funds will made available to digitise the South African television broadcasting signal Read More