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On April 22 Germany’s Technische Universitaet Braunschweig carried out the first-ever live DVB-C2 transmission. This milestone test showed that all the predictions were correct and confirmed that DVB-C2 can offer a capacity increase of 60% compared to DVB-C. On May 4th, the ReDeSign Project demonstrated the world’s first public DVB-C2 live transmission at ANGA Cable 2010. This again demonstrated the capabilities of the system and the availability of DVB-C2 equipment. Read More
Last month DVB-T2 has been on the move again! DVB-T2 is making strong progress in the UK market with the Freeview HD service expected to cover 50% of the UK by the start of the World Cup in June. Austria has launched the first DVB-T2 trail in its region, and the DVB Project demonstrated the first end-to-end DVB-T2 chain at NAB in Las Vegas. Read More
Last month DVB-T2 has been on the move again! DVB-T2 is making strong progress in the UK market with the Freeview HD service expected to cover 50% of the UK by the start of the World Cup in June. Austria has launched the first DVB-T2 trail in its region, and the DVB Project demonstrated the first end-to-end DVB-T2 chain at NAB in Las Vegas. Read More
Italian broadcast group Mediaset, which offers free and paid services over digital terrestrial, views Connected TV as an important opportunity to expand the reach of its content, expand its... Read More
The Swedish Radio and Television Authority (RTVV) has received 40 applications for broadcast capacity on the countries DTT platform following its Read More
Public service broadcaster RTVE has begun broadcasting HD programming in Madrid using channel 55, the channel which was previously occupied by La2. Read More
DVB-H licence holder, Info-TV-FM, still has to reach an agreement with mobile telecom operators before it can launch a mobile service. Head of Read More
Prisa and Mediapro have reached an agreement to operate a single Pay-DTT platform which will allow a single receiver with Nagravision conditional Read More
The Portuguese communications regulator Anacom has opened a consultation on its proposed plan for analogue switch-off (ASO). The consultation is Read More
The Polish public broadcaster TVP and national transmission company Emitel have signed an agreement for the launch of what will be the country’s Read More
According to a recent press release from Freeview New Zealand, sales figures for Q1 2010 show that nearly a quarter (23.5%) of New Zealand homes Read More
According to its recently released 2010 Q1 figures KPN have 1,033,000 digital TV subscribers mostly watching DTT whilst 10% are using IPTV Read More
