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China looks to private capital to speed up DTV transition

According to Advanced-Television.com China is speeding up its transition to digital TV by encouraging private capital investment in the digitisation Read More

Minister of Communication clarifies speech

Hélio Costa, head of the Ministry of Communication, met with members of the project of Sistema Brasileno de TV Digital (SBTVD). As published by Read More

NAB agrees to 2009 DTV deadline

Though the political jockeying may never end, the DTV transition appears to be coming to a conclusion according to an article on Broadcast Read More

Consultation on DTT begins

The National Broadcasting Council (KRRIT) has begun a digital consultation process into digital terrestrial broadcasting. All interested parties are Read More

DVB-T start date for the Middle of Germany

DVB-T services are planned to start in the Halle/Leipzig and Erfurt/Weimar areas of Germany on December 5th 2005. This launch is in line with the Read More

DTT roll-out defined by CSA

CSA, the French broadcasting regulator has announced more details of the DTT launch. Channel numbers for the four recently licensed free to air Read More

Danish consortium to test DVB-H

Public service broadcaster Danmarks Radio, Nokia Corp. and Motorola have formed a consortium to carry out  pilot tests using the DVB-H standard to Read More

Portuguese regulator approves DVB-T, DVB-H, MPEG-4 trials

The National Communication Authority in Portugal (Anacom) has authorised Siemens, SGC Telecom and Group Media Capital to carry out technical trials Read More

Chinese Broadcasters buy DVB-T transmitters from Harris

Harris Broadcast announced the supply of DVB-T transmitters to Chinese broadcasters in a press release dated 14th June 2005. Harris Atlas DTV660 Read More

Via Licensing Announces Patent Licensing Terms for MHP and OCAP

In a press release issued in San Francisco yesterday, Via Licensing Corporation announced the availability of financial license terms for patents essential for implementations of the MHP 1.0... Read More

Belarus to switch to Digital TV Broadcasting by 2015

In July 2005 the Ministry of Communication and Information, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance are to Read More

TV to Mobilephone trial using DVB-H begins

Bridge Networks, a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank's TV towers business Broadcast Australia is set to start its year long trial in Sydney before the Read More