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DVB World 2013 - 3 weeks, 3 reasons

DVB World 2013 will take place in exactly 3 weeks from March 11-13 in Madrid. There are many good reasons to join DVB World. The 3 main reasons are: great presentations about DVB standards, broadcast, and beyond, many networking opportunities to meet with a wide range of industry experts and see DVB demos from various exhibitors. See you in 3 weeks! Read More

DVB World 2013 - 3 weeks, 3 reasons

DVB World 2013 will take place in exactly 3 weeks from March 11-13 in Madrid. There are many good reasons to join DVB World. The 3 main reasons are: great presentations about DVB standards, broadcast, and beyond, many networking opportunities to meet with a wide range of industry experts and see DVB demos from various exhibitors. See you in 3 weeks! Read More

DVB World 2013 - 3 weeks, 3 reasons

DVB World 2013 will take place in exactly 3 weeks from March 11-13 in Madrid. There are many good reasons to join DVB World. The 3 main reasons are: great presentations about DVB standards, broadcast, and beyond, many networking opportunities to meet with a wide range of industry experts and see DVB demos from various exhibitors. See you in 3 weeks! Read More

ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2013

The ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium will take place next week from March 5 to 8 in Kuala Lumpur. DVB will again have a presence through a sponsored DVB-T2 Implementation Workshop that includes a joint demo combining T2 and T2-Lite with support from Sony, Harris, Enensys and the BBC. Other DVB-T2 workshops will be presented by Enensys, Rohde & Schwarz and Nevion. Finally, DVB Chairman Phil Laven will present at the conference on the Future of Broadcast TV (FoBTV) initiative. Read More

Arqiva warns on HD delays to digital terrestrial

According to Broadcast magazine, Arqiva has warned Ofcom that delays in deciding whether Freeview will carry HD channels could result in a £70 Read More

Pay DTT to launch in Belarus in DVB-T2

State-owned Belarusian incumbent telco Beltelecom is planning to launch a pay DTT service April 2013 using DVB-T2. Source: IHS Screen Digest Read More

New Multi-Tuner Sub-Brand Logos Available

In September 2010 all the DVB sub-brand logos were re-designed to have a uniform look and feel. For the increasing number of multi-tuner devices and TV's in the market, DVB has now also designed combined multi-tuner DVB logos such as DVB-T2/C2/S2, DVB-T/C, etc. This will allow a clearer marketing of DVB products and a more compact logo on products or packaging. If your company is not already registered for the correct DVB logos, please do so today! Read More

New DVB Scene: Issue 41

DVB SCENE Issue 41 (March 2013) has just been released. This "Looking at the Bigger Picture" issue includes articles on: DVB-T2, ENGINES, DigiTAG, the True Cost of OTT, companion screens, the big picture for DVB: 3DTV, UHDTV and HEVC, DVB-T2 in Asia, switchover in Nigeria, DVB-T2 workshop in New Delhi, TV Festival Vietnam, FoBTV, DVB website news, and MPEG4 on the Internet. You can view, download or subscribe to DVB Scene here. Read More

DVB-S2 - Call for Technologies

DVB has published a Call for Technologies (CfT) for Evolutionary Subsystems of the DVB-S2 system. Proposed DVB-Sx-subsystems should be submitted to the DVB Project Office by 11 February 2013 at 23:59 CET. More details can be found here. Read More

DVB World 2013 - Register Now

The DVB World 2013 conference program has been completed and registration has been opened. Register now and benefit from the early-bird discount. DVB Members and groups get additional discounts! DVB World 2013 will take a look at what lies beyond DVB's second generation and beyond the second screen developments with the help of speakers from Wired, EBU, ITU, RTVE, TU Braunschweig, SES, Hispasat, Kabel Deutschland, Screen Digest, Octoshape, Orange, ZDF, Eurovision, Global IP, Sony, NDS/Cisco, HHI/Fraunhofer, SNL Kagan, Ericsson, Dolby and many more. Read More

Digital coverage predictions announced

Ofcom the UK regulator has published the predicted the coverage of public DTT services which are to be provided following digital switchover. The Read More

RAI to launch DVB-T2 broadcasts

Italian public broadcaster RAI is set to launch DVB-T2 broadcasts in almost all the provincial capitals with a new dedicated multiplex (number five). Read More