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Twenty-Four Firms Participate In OCAP Interoperability Event

Louisville, Colorado, August 18, 2004 – A total of 24 companies participated in a CableLabs®-hosted landmark OpenCable⢠Application Platform (OCAPâ¢) interoperability event during the... Read More

Finnish Cable TV starts commercial iTV services

Ortikon Interactive Ltd announced today that its ORTIKON ACE® MHP-based interactive TV services, platform and head-end management solution have passed all the acceptance tests set by the major... Read More

Finnish Cable TV starts commercial iTV services

27 August 2004 Ortikon Interactive Ltd announced today that its ORTIKON ACE® MHP-based interactive TV services, platform and head-end management solution have passed all the acceptance tests set by the major Finnish cable consortium comprising 3KTV (Finnet), TTV (Elisa), Turku Cable and VLP (Vaasa Telephone Company), which together reach… Read More

DVB-H Trials Planned for Australia

At an ABE/Free TV Engineering Conference this month in Sydney, plans were announced for trials of the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld) transmission standard. Subject to Australian Broadcasting Authority approval, the trials will commence in December. They will be conducted by Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks and partners under a scientific transmission licence. Read More

European Commission Reiterates its Support for Open and Interoperable iTV Standards

EU Member States should continue to promote open and interoperable standards for interactive digital TV – including the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard â on a voluntary basis, says the... Read More

European Commission Reiterates its Support for Open and Interoperable iTV Standards

2 August 2004 EU Member States should continue to promote open and interoperable standards for interactive digital TV – including the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard – on a voluntary basis, says the European Commission in a new Communication on the interoperability of interactive digital TV. There is no… Read More

ETSI and DVB present paper at CITEL

22 July 2004 A meeting of CITEL’s Permanent Consultative Committee for Radiocommunication including Broadcasting is taking place in Orlando, Florida this week. You can download the paper presented by ETSI and DVB – “A Global Digital TV Standard for Latin America and the Caribbean” – either in… Read More

EU Digital Terrestrial TV Households to hit 55 million by 2009

21 June 2004 Basingstoke, UK (21 June 2004):- The number of EU households with digital terrestrial television (DTT) is set to reach nearly 55 million by 2009, representing 55% of all digital households in the union and 30% of all TV households, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read More

HTV Launches HDTV Test Transmission on Cable

21 June 2004 Finland’s largest cable operator HTV (Helsinki Television) has launched HDTV test transmission in their network in the capital region, as one of the first European cable operators. HTV launched the HDTV test distribution on June 8, 2004, being among the first European cable operators to… Read More

DVB Pavilion at NAB2004 Hosts End-To-End OCAP Demo & New DVB-H Technology

Building on the success of satellite transmission specification DVB-S, DVB-S2 offers greater flexibility and better performance over existing satellites at reasonable cost. The new open specification offers a 30 percent capacity increase under the same transmission conditions, more robust reception for the same spectrum efficiency and will operate from Carrier-to-Noise… Read More

DVB Pavilion at BroadcastAsia2004

15 June 2004 The DVB Pavilion at this year’s Broadcast Asia is proud to showcase two new landmark specifications, DVB-S2 the most advanced satellite distribution technology available today and DVB-H for accessing DVB services on handheld devices. MHP will also have a strong presence in the Pavilion. The… Read More

Live DVB-H Demonstration for Singapore

14 June 2004 SINGAPORE (14 June 2004):- Achieving a first for the Asia-Pacific region, Nokia, MediaCorp Technologies, M1 and the Media Development Authority of Singapore today jointly showcased a live end-to-end mobile phone TV broadcast over a DVB-H network at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. DVB-H is a… Read More