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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

West Country

Q2, 2009: Beacon Hill, serving south Devon; Stockland Hill, serving south-west Somerset, parts of west Dorset and south-east Devon, including Read More

Myanmar Update

(Jan. 9, 2012) Myanmar is now introducing DVB-T2 overlaying their existing extensive DVB-T network. The forever group (National Broadcaster) have Read More

DVB-H gets everyone's attention

Not only have Groupe Canal +, SFR and Nokia announced a joint DVB-H trial to 500 users but TPS  also announced separately that it will  be Read More

Recent

The DVB-C pilot trial on the cable system in Flanders, was completed at the end of 2004 and it is hoped that a full IDTV service will start soon. Read More

Austria launches Digital Terrestrial TV using DVB-T

Austria chose its National Day (26th October 2006), which commemorates the end of foreign occupation (in 1955), to finally launch its Digital Read More

Over 500 channels available on DTT platforms in Europe

Recent data from the MAVISE TV database, developed for the DG Communication of the European Commission by the European Audiovisual Observatory, shows Read More

Update on switchover timetable

Digital UK has announced switchover timings for the West Country, Wales and Granada regions under the Governments 2008-2012 switchover timetable. Read More

Two mobile licences to be released

According to advanced-television.com, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) has completed a draft proposal for the release Read More

FENITEL encourages prompt conversion orders

The National Federation of Telecommunication Installers (FENITEL) are warning the owners of housing units with collective antennas not to wait Read More

Singapore DVB-T2 plans move ahead

Singapore’s Media Development Authority has announced that all free-to-air terrestrial TV channels will go fully digital by the end of 2013 using Read More

Cyfra+ wants DTT multiplex

Canal + Cyfrowy wants to play a leading roll in Polands emerging DTT marketplace according to Wirtualne Media. The president of the Cyfra+ Read More