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Dr. Nicholas D. Wells was awarded the “IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Engineering Excellence Award 2010” on the occasion of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE). Dr. Wells works with the BBC Research & Development Department. He is the vice chairman of the DVB Technical Module and the chairman of the ad-hoc group TM-T2 of the DVB Technical Module in which the specification of the DVB-T2 system was developed. The award was presented for contributions towards the development of the second generation Digital Terrestrial Television system DVB-T2. Read More
Last week's 3D TV Webinar is now available for download. You can either download the presentation or the complete Webinar video itself. David Wood, chair of the DVB CM-3DTV group explains the various 3D TV solutions and the next steps within the DVB Project. Read More
The UK’s Public service broadcaster, the BBC, is to launch a high Definition (HD) version of its main channel BBC One on DTT, cable and satellite Read More
Kelko, the web based shopping comparison site, predicts that almost 1 in 4 UK TV households (23%) will own a 3D enabled television set by 2015. The Read More
Poland’s Analogue Switch Off (ASO) is now likely to take place on the 31st July 2013 reports Chris Dziadul of Broadband TV News. Crediting the Read More
Ireland’s minister for communications Eamon Ryan has told parliament that digital free-to-air services from RTE will be on air by the end of Read More
French consultancy firm NPA Conseil predicts that Pay-DTT services will reach between 1.35 and 1.45 million subscribers by 2012, reports Rapid TV Read More
UPC Czech has begun a DTT trial in Prague, reports Broadband TV News. The eventual aim of UPC is to offer its subscribers the must-carry channels Read More
Cosmos TV has confirmed the launch a 20 channel Pay-DTT service using DVB-T in Minsk from the 1st June. During the next three months the number of Read More
The first Polish 3D TV trial on the DTT platform took place in Warsaw on the 15th May. Using the satellite feed of a football game from Canal + Read More
The National Broadcasting Council in Poland has adopted a resolution that allows commercial stations to move from Multiplex 1 to Multiplex 2, a Read More
NRK announced, at the recent Telenor “Broadcast Day”, that it is to replace the standard definition (SD) feeds on all three principle DTT Read More
