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Geneva – 03 Feb 2005 – Europe’s IPTV community gathered yesterday in Geneva to hear how the DVB Project is planning to build on the considerable work already done in this growth area. All of the presentations delivered at yesterday’s event are available for download from the homepage of the CM-IPTV group. Read More
January 19th saw the launch of a digital television service on the public transport system in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. DIMO TV, standing for “Digital Mobile Television”, uses DVB-T to broadcast to 165 buses and 6 harbour ferries. This service follows the success of similar services in Singapore (TVMobile) and Shanghai (Oriental… Read More
As of December 31st 2005 the estimated number of digital television set top box receivers and integrated digital TV sets sold to retailers and Read More
Denver-based company MPEG LA announced at the end of December its intention to gather holders of essential technologies in DVB-H together, with the aim of making a joint patent portfolio license available to those wishing to deploy services using the new standard. The full press release is available here. Read More
In January 2005, Societatea Nationala de Radiocommunicatii S.A. (SNR), the Romanian network operator, placed a large order with Rohde & Schwarz. Read More
VTM, a commercial broadcaster in Belgium and a member of the Flanders Interactive Consortium, has successfully demonstrated an MHP-based application powering the voting on its interactive... Read More
The DVB Project today welcomed in a press release the formal adoption by ETSI of the DVB-H specification for bringing broadcast services to handheld devices. The specification, EN 302 304, is now available for download from the ETSI website. You can find the full DVB press release here. Read More
Geneva, 2nd November 2004 – The DVB Steering Board has approved a revision to its well known implementation guidelines for audio and video codecs over a broadcast Transport Stream to include the option of both H.264/AVC video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codecs. The revision to the European Telecommunications… Read More
Texas Instruments announced last week in Dallas the development of the wireless industry’s first digital TV chip for mobile telephones. The chip, code-named ” Hollywood “, will include support for DVB-H technology, collapsing the traditional three-chip solution – tuner, OFDM demodulator and channel decoder – into the industry’s first integrated… Read More
Information ministers from ten Southeast Asian nations have reaffirmed their commitment to a joint regional approach to the development of digital broadcasting. In particular they welcomed and endorsed the establishment of a Task Force to work towards the formulation of a common technical specification for set-top boxes It was acknowledged, however,… Read More
State subsidies on MHP digital decoders are to continue next year, the Italian government has announced, but at a reduced level. At the Sat Expo trade show in Vicenza, Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri announced that a subsidy of €120, down from €150, will be available to all purchasers of MHP… Read More
State subsidies on MHP digital decoders are to continue next year, the Italian government has announced, but at a reduced level. At the Sat Expo trade show in Vicenza, Communications Minister... Read More
