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DTT market reorganises

The Czech transmission company Radiokomunikace (CRa) has strengthened its position in the country’s DTT market-place by acquiring the Czech Read More

Multiplex D gains three services

Three broadcasting licenses, of 15year duration each, have been awarded by the Croatian Electronic Media Council (AEM) for services on Multiplex D. Read More

Webcast on Java TV Software

December 16: Live Webcast: Java – the Industry Standard for the Future of TV Content Source: The Java Source (Oracle) You might not know this, but Java is running in more than 80 million... Read More

Four national DTT multiplexes licensed.

The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting has awarded the license for the operation of 4 national DTT multiplexes to a company Read More

Digital terrestrial switch completed

Slovenia completed its switch to DTT on the 1st December 2010 with the termination of all analogue transmissions on a single day. Viewers can now Read More

DVB-T2 for Slovakia

Digizone is quoted as reporting that the DVB-T2 trial mentioned previously for Zilina will take place next year. Quoting a document on the Read More

Freeview more popular than ever

Freeview sales from retailers for the three months to the 30th September 2010 totalled 58,417 units, up from 54,456 in the previous quarter. Now Read More

Ceské Radiokomunikace sold to Macquarie

The Falcon Group consortium has sold the Czech broadcast network operator, Ceske Radiokomunikace (CRa) to the infrastructure funds managed by the Read More

Czech Republic plans DVB-T2 launch

Pavel Dvorak, the president of the Czech Telecom Office (CTU), says that the country plans to finish testing DVB-T2 at the end of next year and Read More

More DTT channels for Croatia

RTL Televija and Nova TV are preparing to launch more channels on the country’s second DTT multiplex. RTV Televija, who already broadcasts RTL Read More

Broadcaster plans new digital platform

Austrian public broadcaster ORF’s transmission services subsidiary ORS is planning to develop a common platform for the distribution of digital Read More

DVB World 2011 Programme Announced

“From 2nd Generation to 3rd Dimension”. The preliminary programme for DVB World 2011 (March 7 to 9 in Nice) has been published and the site is now open for registrations. Topics include: Changes in media consumption, DVB Around the World, 3D Gaming, DVB-C2, DVB- T2, DVB-S2, Multi-PLP, DVB-CSA3, DVB-RCS, DVB-NGH, ATSC Mobile, LTE, Chipsets, Net Neutrality, IPTV, 3DTV, Subtitles and UHDTV. Read More