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Nokia are to flood the Spanish Market with TV phones

according to Advanced-Television.com The item goes on to say that the Finish mobile company plans a full-frontal assault on the Spanish mobile TV Read More

DTT services on air in Mauritius

The Soft-launch of DTT services using DVB-T takes place today the 30th September at 8 o'clock in the evening. This exciting step initiates the Read More

Digital TV returns to Argentina's Agenda

Today, the 30th September, in the Public Post Office, the launching day for Digital TV in Argentina will be carried out. The event organized by the Read More

ACAP approved by ATSC

ACAP (Advanced Common Application Platform), the middleware specification based on GEM, was recently approved by the ATSC. With trial services already on air in Korea, where the ATSC system is... Read More

Live DVB-H demonstrated at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisc

On the 27th September, at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2005 show in San Francisco, Intel demonstrated multichannel TV broadcast to Read More

First Analogue TV Transmitters Turned Off

Sweden began its transition to digital television Monday as the first analogue transmitters have been turned off, on the island of Gotland. The Read More

DTT services in Mauritius could start in two months

An article in L'Express says that Free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television services could start in Mauritius during the next two months. Read More

Germany to expand DTT coverage

Germany’s public broadcasters have committed to bring digital terrestrial television to 90% of the population. The move will take DTT out of the Read More

French group backs MHP for DTT

French interactive television trade group AFDESI (Association Française des Dévelopeurs, Editeurs et Fournisseurs de Services en télévision Read More

Digital penetration reaches 63%

Recent figures from Ofcom show that the number of digital households in the UK increased from 61.9% in the first quarter of 2005 to 63% in the second Read More

Analogue switch-off in 2006 for PBS stations

The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced that the Dutch public broadcast services (Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3) will cease Read More

HDTV MPEG4 broadcast from the Eiffel Tower

TPS broadcast a short HDTV movie coded in MPEG4 from its Eiffel Tower transmitter on September 14th, 2005. The HD channel was inserted in the Read More