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Croatian DVB-T2 Agreements Signed

Croatian Post and Croatia’s national transmission company OiV have signed a 10-year digital TV cooperation agreement for two DVB-T2 multiplexes, Read More

Croatian regulator certifies DVB-T2 network

Croatian telecommunications sector regulator Hakom completed the technical tests and cerfitied that local operator Odasiljaci i Veze (OiV) fulfills Read More

Colombia DVB-T2 launch moves ahead

Colombia will launch a DVB-T2 TV network in 2013. The network will use R&S THU9 high-power transmitters from Rohde & Schwarz. In 2010, upon Read More

Mobile TV: Will DVB have a market in China

In the DVB-SCENE issue 13, page 9, Scot Ge , Editor of Broadcast & Production China, gives his personal opinion on the continued use of DVB-T in Read More

DTH Service

SARFT would like to use DTH to extend the coverage of television services outside the urban areas. DVB-S2 remains the favoured solution in the Read More

DVB-C deployment

Chinese industry and the Administration has concentrated on the deployment of DVB-C services in recent years with a view to meeting the target of 30 Read More

DTTB development and deployment

China is progressing with the development of its own system for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB), although some DVB-T services Read More

IMS Research analyses the Chinese market

China had more than 25 million digital satellite TV households in a total market of 340million, at the end of 2004, according to a report form IMS Read More

Digital TV progress in China

China is to digitise cable TV in four stages, according to SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film and Television). Stage one will digitise all Read More

Ministry denies that Chile has already decided on ATSC

Following press reports that Chile had chosen the US, ATSC system as its terrestrial digital TV standard, the Ministry of Transports and Read More

Brazil abandons plans to develop its own digital TV standard (see above)

Brazil has been investigating the development of its own digital terrestrial broadcasting system but according to a report by TMCnet existing Read More

Background

A DVB-T/ADSL pilot trial by both public broadcaster VRT and Telco Belgacom began in April 2002 from the Schoten transmitter in Flanders. 100 Read More