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In a joint statement issued today (02/09/2004), Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters confirmed their commitment to a common platform for digital terrestrial services based on open standards. The... Read More
02 September 2004 In a joint statement issued today (02/09/2004), Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters confirmed their commitment to a common platform for digital terrestrial services based on open standards. The broadcasters have indicated that, as a minimum, interactive set top boxes for the Australian market should be manufactured to the… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
