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DVB SCENE Issue 40 (September 2012) has just been released. This "Trends on the " issue includes articles from: Michael Lagally, GEM in 3D / David Wood, Forward thinking for 3DTV/ Vittoria Mignone, Carrier ID and interference/ Dietrich Westerkamp, TV sets get a companion/ Ulrich Reimers, Thank you DVB/ Nick Wells, On the horizon/ Phil Laven, FoBTV/ Alexey V. Malinin, Russia's migration to T2/ Myra Moore (DTC), Lifer after ASO and more… You can view, download or subscribe to DVB Scene here. Read More
At this year's ANGA Cable Exhibition and Congress held in Cologne from 12 - 14 June DVB will be exhibiting on the booth of ANGA - the Association of German Cable Operators. Precise details of the technology demo will be detailed in the next DVB eNews (May 31). DVB will also present a Technology Panel titled 'Hot Topics in DVB' in the official conference program that will take place on Tuesday, 12 June. Read More
Following various meetings, seminars and trials, Thailand officially confirmed the adoption of DVB-T2 as its digital terrestiral television standard on May 24th, 2012. The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is expecting the system to be up and running within this yearend has already started making plans for the procurement of affordable DVB-T2 set-top boxes. Read More
DVB member Televes, a global firm specialising in the distribution of TV signals throughout building infrastructures, is set to deploy the first project in Spain for delivering 3DTV services over DVB-C2. Televes leads the DERFO 3DTV project, supported by several universities, the Gradiant Technological Center and Continental Networks. The DERFO 3DTV project is an ambitious endeavour to distribute 3DTV over fibre optic and coaxial networks using the latest cable transmission scheme DVB-C2. DVB-C2 was selected for its high bandwidth efficiency, which is necessary to deliver 3DTV service Read More
DVB will be present at this year's BroadcastAsia Exhibition & Conference (June 19-22, Singapore) with demos and presentations on DVB-T2 and DVB-C2. On Stand 4S4-06 you will be able to see a DVB-T2 and T2-Lite demo and DVB-C2 TV's and set-top boxes. DVB experts will also be participating in the official conference program in the "DVB-T2 Technologies - The Road Ahead". Read More
At the NAB Show in Las Vegas, technical executives from 13 television broadcast organizations from around the world, including DVB, completed signing a landmark memorandum of understanding (MOU) to officially form the global Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) Initiative. Announced during a well-attended general session on FOBTV at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, the MOU builds on the Future of Broadcast TV Summit held in Shanghai, China, in November 2011, where world broadcasting leaders established a framework for cooperation to chart the future course of terrestrial television broadcasting. Read More
Last week at the 63rd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards ceremony at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, DVB received a coveted 2011 Technical/Engineering Emmy Award. Dr Peter Siebert, DVB's executive director, accepted the award on behalf of DVB and all its members for DVB's work on the Active Format Description (AFD) technology. Read More
It's NAB time! Tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April), DVB Project Office Director Peter Siebert will present " DVB-T2-Lite: A Second Wind for Mobile TV? " in the Mobile Video and Mobile TV session and will highlight the flexibility of DVB-T2 and its mobile capabilites. DVB will also have a presence through 50 or so DVB member companies that are exhibiting at NAB 2012. Read More
It's NAB time! Tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April), DVB Project Office Director Peter Siebert will present " DVB-T2-Lite: A Second Wind for Mobile TV? " in the Mobile Video and Mobile TV session and will highlight the flexibility of DVB-T2 and its mobile capabilites. DVB will also have a presence through 50 or so DVB member companies that are exhibiting at NAB 2012. Read More
It's NAB time! Tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April), DVB Project Office Director Peter Siebert will present " DVB-T2-Lite: A Second Wind for Mobile TV? " in the Mobile Video and Mobile TV session and will highlight the flexibility of DVB-T2 and its mobile capabilites. DVB will also have a presence through 50 or so DVB member companies that are exhibiting at NAB 2012. Read More
The capability to inform a wide audience of immediate dangers such as earthquakes is a relevant feature for every broadcast system. The Emergency Warning System defined by DVB provides the necessary mechanisms to distribute relevant information to the general public in case of emergencies. A new DVB Emergency Warning System fact sheet describes which DVB standards and documents are required and how the system works. Read More
It became quite a busy day on Monday, 27th February 2011, when more than twenty DVB-C2 experts from all over Europe, as well as from Korea, came together on the invitation of DVB to the RF labs of Kabel Deutschland in Berlin, to test their prototype implementations of the new DVB-C2 standard for the first time. They were setting up their modulators and tuner/demodulators for testing in a realistic cable environment. The DVB-TM Ad-Hoc Group TM-C2 had prepared a detailed schedule and related technical testing configurations for the three days of the Plug Fest. Read More
