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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
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
The Vietnam Television Technology Investment and Development Company (VTC) has received permission from the Government Office to provide DVB-T Read More
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
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 Mobile Media has selected Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video 9 and Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) 10 for its Read More
House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton and other lawmakers agreed that December 31st 2008 would be the probable date for analogue television Read More
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
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
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
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
Tessa Jowell, the UK Secretary for Culture, confirmed the previously proposed switch-over timetable in her key-note speech at the Royal Read More