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The future of media delivery is on the agenda for DVB World 2023 in Brussels on Thursday 22 June. In fact, strictly speaking, for now the agenda is empty: it will be filled with topics and sessions when more than 130 participants gather that morning for the opening… Read More

In developing a future strategy for its popular DTT (digital terrestrial television) platform, Saorview, Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ decided to test the capabilities of DVB-I. With customers increasingly expressing a wish to view Saorview content on smartphones, tablets and laptops, DVB-I was an obvious candidate to explore. A proof… Read More

The German DVB-I Pilot, which ran from September 2022 to March 2023, aimed to develop a common view on the technical features of the DVB-I standard and on the opportunities and challenges for the German television market. The initiative involved 21 stakeholders from the media industry, including broadcasters, device… Read More

The DVB Project had a strong presence at the recent 2023 World Ultra HD Video Industry Development Conference, which took place in Guangzhou, China, from 8 to 10 May. On the first day of the conference, DVB collaborated with the AVS Industry Alliance to co-host a workshop updating attendees… Read More

The latest example of a long-running collaboration between the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) has seen the first tests of DVB-I taking place in Spain. Under the auspices of the RTVE Chair at UPM, a live event at the end of… Read More

The DVB Steering Board has approved the membership of Telesat, a satellite operator based in Canada. Telesat is one of the largest and most successful global satellite operators, delivering critical connectivity solutions that tackle the world’s most complex communications challenges. “As we continue to develop our next-generation low… Read More

With the latest update of the DVB-AVC specification soon to be published by ETSI, the DVB Project has published two new documents setting out the commercial requirements that will drive the organization’s next phase of work on video codecs. The documents, DVB BlueBooks C105 and C106, are… Read More

A new revision of the DVB-AVC specification adding two new video codecs – VVC and AVS3 – has been approved by the DVB Steering Board and is available now as DVB BlueBook A001r21 and will soon be published as ETSI TS 101 154 V2.8.1. The DVB Project maintains a… Read More

Available in 198 countries and in 421 million households, TV5MONDE is one of the world’s largest television networks. Since April 2021, TV5MONDE has been using DVB-TTML as a pivot subtitling format between playout and packaging. Read More

The media industry is undergoing its biggest revolution since the invention of television. We thought migrating from analogue to digital TV was hard – it was much easier that what’s going on now. As we have seen in the cable TV sector, the march of IP is all conquering. What was once a transport stream delivered using 64-QAM and DVB-C is now largely based on DOCSIS with the latest versions being IP-only. Read More

The latest release of the core HbbTV specification for hybrid broadcast–broadband television includes integration with DVB-I. The goal is to allow HbbTV applications that are typically linked to a classic DVB broadcast also be linked to services discovered via a DVB-I service list, whether delivered via broadcast or broadband. Read More

The new issue of DVB Scene magazine is now available for download. The striking photograph on the cover of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka marks the launch in the island nation of Asia’s first satellite television service based on DVB-S2X. Issue 61 also features a photo story on the… Read More