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10 June 2004 SAN FRANCISCO (June 10, 2004):- Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to issue a call for essential patents reading on the Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform (MHP), Globally Executable MHP (GEM), CableLabs(R) OpenCable(TM) Applications Platform (OCAP(TM)) standards, and associated DVB specifications. The DVB Project and CableLabs… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (June 10, 2004):- Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to issue a call for essential patents reading on the Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform (MHP), Globally... Read More
27 May 2004 OCAP (OpenCable Applications Platform), part of the OpenCable™ initiative at CableLabs, has issued a new DVR Extension Specification. It is available on the OpenCable website at http://www.opencable.com/specifications. Read More
OCAP (OpenCable Applications Platform), part of the OpenCable⢠initiative at CableLabs, has issued a new DVR Extension Specification. It is available on the OpenCable website at Read More
Nagravision, part of the Swiss-based Kudelski Group, announced last week that the two largest cable television companies in Brazil have decided to use its technologies for the delivery of digital cable television. NET Serviços de Comunicação, Latin America’s and Brazil’s largest cable TV operator, has selected Nagravision Conditional Access system… Read More
18 May 2004 You can read the full details in the press release published on the MPEG LA website. A correction relating to participation fees for Subscription AVC Video was published later the same day. Read More
The City of Tampere has become the first city in Finland to deploy digital television services using MHP (Multimedia Home Platform). The Digital TV Portal offers news, an event calendar,... Read More
14 May 2004 The City of Tampere has become the first city in Finland to deploy digital television services using MHP (Multimedia Home Platform). The Digital TV Portal offers news, an event calendar, local bus timetables and web cameras over the city. Sofia Digital is responsible for the UI Design and the technical… Read More
30 April 2004 Digital Broadcasting Australia today released figures estimating free to view digital television receiver sales to March 2004 totalled 322,000 units. Just over 70% of those sales have occurred in the past 9 months. DBA’s managing consultant, Mr Tim O’Keefe, considered there were a number of factors contributing to the sales growth in the March… Read More
31 March 2004 The Cheif Executive of Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, has said that Government and industry cannot rely on market forces alone to deliver near-universal switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting in television. In a speech to the Westminster Media Forum, Mr Stephen Carter… Read More
30 March 2004 Orlando, Fla. – March 30, 2004: Northern Sky Research today released its newest market research and survey report entitled, “DVB-S2 Technology and Markets,” which assesses the satellite broadcast and communication industry’s second generation digital modulation and coding standard: This report concludes the DVB-S2 standard not only satisfies… Read More
26 March 2004 Denver, CO (March 26, 2004) – MPEG LA, LLC today announced a plan for providing fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory worldwide access to patents that are essential to Proposed Standard VC-9 submitted to SMPTE Technology Committee C24(2004-03-19), also known as Proposed SMPTE Standard for Television: VC-9 Compressed Video Bitstream Format and… Read More
