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DVB-MHP adopted by CableLabs

DVB-MHP: The Digital Video Broadcasting-Multimedia Home Platform application programming interface was adopted by CableLabs in the U.S. to be the core component of its OpenCable Application... Read More

DVB-MHP adopted by CableLabs

25th January 2002 DVB-MHP: The Digital Video Broadcasting-Multimedia Home Platform application programming interface was adopted by CableLabs in the U.S. to be the core component of its OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) specification. MHP definitely grew in popularity among ITV developers in Europe and elsewhere. The worldwide proliferation of this… Read More

Digital TV in Vietnam Grows

The Vietnam Television Technology Investment and Development Company (VTC) has received permission from the Government Office to provide DVB-T Read More

S2 Covers America

In the same DVB-Scene the article on page 11 describes how DirecTV will use DVB-S2 to deliver "hundreds" of HD channels to the American public in the Read More

Mobile in the USA

In DVB-SCENE Issue 13, page 7, NickDavies, CTO, Crown Castle Mobile Media, describes the progress of their DVB-H network in Pittsburgh, PA. Read More

Crown Castle opens Window for mobile TV

Crown Castle Mobile Media has selected Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video 9 and Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) 10 for its Read More

Analogue Switch off in 2008

House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton and other lawmakers agreed that December 31st 2008 would be the probable date for analogue television Read More

FloTV closes and spectrum sold

The telecom operator AT&T has agreed to buy spectrum in the lower 700 MHz frequency band licensed by Qualcomm. AT&T will pay $1.93 billion (1.47 Read More

Regulator plans to decide on Digital TV standard

Uruguayan telecoms regulator URSEC plans to decide this year which digital standard to use in the country according to reports on the TMC.net Read More

UK analogue switch off begins

Analogue services around the Welsh villages of Ferryside and Llansteffan were switched off at the end of March. Only digital services now remain as Read More

Planning Options for Digital Switchover (Ofcom)

Ofcom has now published the results of its consultation process on planning for the digital switchover of terrestrial television in the UK. Its Read More

UK switch-over timetable confirmed

Tessa Jowell, the UK Secretary for Culture, confirmed the previously proposed switch-over timetable in her key-note speech at the Royal Read More