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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
24 March 2004 Tokyo, Japan (March 24, 2004) – In a joint press conference with MPEG LA today, Japan broadcasters NHK, TBS, NTV, TV Asahi, Fuji TV and TV Tokyo announce their adoption of AVC/H.264 Video Coding for mobile segment digital terrestrial broadcasting. A basic agreement is also announced… Read More
The release of the specification is a contribution of ECCA members for the work initiated by Mandate M/331 of the European Commission. Starting with the collection of commercial requirements, ECCA has consequently synchronised with the Mandate’s plan to foster the introduction of interoperable television services. In submitting the technical specification… Read More
16 March 2004 (Press Release – Radio Television Brunei) ASEAN DIGITAL BROADCASTING MEETNG was held in Brunei on 15 and 16 March 2004 . It was co-organized by Radio Television Brunei and MediaCorp of Singapore supported by Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Brunei Darussalam and the Media Development Authority (MDA)… Read More
15 December 2003 Helsinki, Finland, December 15, 2003 – Leading Finnish broadcast, content and mobile communications companies have signed an agreement to start pilot testing a commercial broadcast service to mobile devices. The aim of the pilot is to gain experience about real end-user acceptance for mobile broadcasting services. Read More
12 December 2003 Sophia Antipolis, 3rd December 2003 – ETSI today published the DVB MHP Standard as ES 201 812 V1.1.1. To download ES 201 812 V1.1.1, please click here and enter the reference number into the search engine. ES 201 812 V1.1.1 “Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Multimedia Home Platform… Read More
05 December 2003 5 December 2003, Hong Kong seeks views sought on digital terrestrial broadcasting. The second consultation paper on digital terrestrial broadcasting in Hong Kong has been published, proposing that the existing terrestrial television broadcasters should start their digital migration in 2006. For more complete information, click here. December 5,… Read More
30th October 2003 Geneva, 30th October 2003 – DVB is to hold it’s 11th annual General Assembly. Formed of representatives of all the DVB members, the GA is ultimate decision-making body in DVB. This year’s GA will elect the 6th DVB Steering Board. DVB’s Steering Board is responsibile for the… Read More
