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At 11:11 AM Shanghai time on 11/11/11, more than 200 delegates to the Future of Broadcast Television Summit officially expressed unified support for a joint declaration signed by technical executives from DVB and 12 other broadcast organizations from around the world that calls for global cooperation to define new requirements, unify various standards, and promote sharing of technologies to benefit developed and under-developed countries and conserve resources. Read More
At 11:11 AM Shanghai time on 11/11/11, more than 200 delegates to the Future of Broadcast Television Summit officially expressed unified support for a joint declaration signed by technical executives from DVB and 12 other broadcast organizations from around the world that calls for global cooperation to define new requirements, unify various standards, and promote sharing of technologies to benefit developed and under-developed countries and conserve resources. Read More
DVB SCENE Issue 39 (March 2012) has just been released. This "Open Standards" issue includes articles from: Martin Gold, CI Plus / Ken McCann, High Efficiency Video Coding / Heidi Hoffman, Adoption of 3D / David Wood, DVB-3DTV Phase 2 / Dirk Breynaert, Enhanced Satellite Standards / Ian Barnard, DVB-T2 in Africa / Ho Siew Mun, DVB Training / Helmut Stein, DVB in Mongolia / Myra Moore, IDTV Sales / John Bigeni, Myanmar News. You can browse the magazine online, download the PDF or subscribe to DVB Scene. Read More
Following last year's news of the adoption of DVB-T2 by Russia, more details are emerging about the plans and timing. There are plans to already start boradcasting using DVB-T2 in 5 cities in the second quarter of 2012. You can read more in the DVB Worldwide section. Read More
DVB and more than 10 DVB members will be presenting and demonstrating DVB- T2 technologies at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Digital Broadcasting Symposium in Kuala Lumpur from March 6 to 9. Next to the exhibition, DVB is also participating at the conference and is hosting a DVB workshop with a special focus on efficiency and switching to DVB-T2. Read More
The DVB World 2012 programme is complete and you can now register for the event. Hot topics for 2012 include the spectrum efficiency and energy-efficiency of broadcasting systems and products, which will be covered in depth in dedicated sessions and by a keynote by Dan Reed, VP Technology Policy at Microsoft. Register now! Read More
The Ghanaian government has accepted the recommendations of the Digital Broadcasting Migration Committee to adopt DVB-T2 as the standard for digital terrestrial TV in the country, the Ghana News Agency reported. The terrestrial stations GTV, TV3, TV Africa, Crystal TV, Metro TV, Viasat1, Net-2 TV, e-TV Ghana, Coastal TV, GhOne, Top TV and all other stations with similar licences will migrate from analogue to digital. All vendors and equipment suppliers have been directed to cease importing non DVB- T2/MPEG 4 DTT decoders immediately. Read More
On top of the very positive DVB-T2 developments in Africa, things are moving in other countries as well. Regulators in France and Croatia are both recommending the adoption of DVB-T2 in the very near future and the adoption of T2 by Malaysia is also expected in the coming weeks/months. Read More
A Russian governmental commission has approved the use of the DVB-T2 standard for the development of digital terrestrial TV in Russia, as proposed by the Ministry of Communications. All new DTT networks will start using DVB-T2 and all existing DVB-T networks will gradually be upgraded as well. Stay tuned for more news over the coming weeks on this potentially massive DVB-T2 deployment. Read More
The preliminary programme for DVB World 2012 has been published and you can now see some of the key sessions, themes, topics and speaker on the updated website. 2012 marks a special year in the world of digital broadcasting as it is the year where most European terrestrial TV services will switch off the analogue signals and will move exclusively to digital. A second key theme of DVB World 2012 is efficiency. The conference will cover the efficiency of the DVB standards development process, spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency. You can read all about the programme here. Read More
Following Colombia's National Television Commission (CNTV) recommendation to migrate from the DVB-T standard for digital terrestrial television delivery to the more advanced DVB-T2 standard, the Colombian government has officially adopted DVB-T2 on December 20th 2011. Read More
The US FCC has approved AT&T's proposed acquisition of spectrum in the previous analogue TV 700MHz band initially bought by Qualcomm. The licences Read More
