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Digital Switchover report published

The Danish DTT Information Office has published an official report on the Digital SwitchOver (DSO) process and its results in Denmark. The report Read More

DTT FTA platform has 2 million users

During the recent CASBAA Pay-TV seminar in Hanoi the DTT free to air viewer base in Vietnam was given as 2 million. The seminar themed “Pay-TV Read More

Strong growth for DTT platform

The Web’s Rapid TV news site reports that a study published by Barlovento Comunicación, says that viewers on the DTT platform increased by 10.6 Read More

South African Industry Favours DVB-T

May 6, 2010 Exciting times in South Africa! No, not the upcoming World Cup in June, but the fact that the government is suddenly reviewing its Read More

ASO may be completed in 2011

Paolo Romani, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, has said that bringing forward the countries Analogue Switch Off (ASO) date to 2011 Read More

Mediaset and Telecom Italia plan new DTT services

Mediaset and Telecom Italia, have both announced plans to launch new services on the DTT platform and Mediaset new receiving equipments to make Read More

DTT options still changing

The two week deadline given to the Eircom backed One Vision consortium for a decision in April culminated in the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Read More

DVB-T receivers increase by 33%

The number of DVB-T MPEG-4 receivers sold in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 33% over the previous quarter according to an Antenna Hungária Read More

DTT platform increases channels

ZUUMtv, the Pay DTT platform, is to add two new services to its multiplex in June. The new services will be Eurosport 2 and Sony Entertainment Read More

Webinar - What do we need from 3D TV Standards?

Join DVB CM-3DTV Chairman David Wood on June 4th for a Webinar to find out! The Webinar will outline the elements of 3D TV systems, and to relate them to the commercial requirements that are being considered within DVB. The webinar will explain why it is likely that there will be two phases of 3D TV systems and what the main consequences will be for 3D TV standards. The webinar will also consider timescales for the DVB Project, and the relationship of the DVB work to the work being done in other bodies. Read More

South African Industry Favors DVB-T

Exciting times in South Africa! No, not the upcoming World Cup in June, but the fact that the government is suddenly reviewing its 2006 decision to adopt DVB-T as its national digital terrestrial television standard. Last week DVB presented the strong case for DVB-T and DVB-T2 at two meetings in the region and received strong support from the South African broadcast industry. Read More

IBM Technical Library: Getting Started with OCAP

The IBM Technical library has released a series of 3 articles on how to start coding OCAP applications: “Getting Started with OCAP”. You can view the tutorial articles here: Read More