Brazil abandons plans to develop its own digital TV standard (see above)
Brazil has been investigating the development of its own digital terrestrial broadcasting system but according to a report by TMCnet existing Read More
Author Archives: Eoghan
Background
A DVB-T/ADSL pilot trial by both public broadcaster VRT and Telco Belgacom began in April 2002 from the Schoten transmitter in Flanders. 100 Read More
Recent
The DVB-C pilot trial on the cable system in Flanders, was completed at the end of 2004 and it is hoped that a full IDTV service will start soon. Read More
DTT Plans for Belgium Announced
Belgium has decided to spend 3 million Euros on new transmitters for its terrestrial network to replace the existing infrastructure which is 15-20 Read More
Country status information on Wikipedia
Information on the status of Digital television in both the French and Flemish speaking parts of Belgium has now appeared on Wikipedia and may be Read More
Norkring Belgium prepares for DVB-T2
Norkring Belgium, the owners of the digital terrestrial transmitter networks for TV and radio in Flanders and Brussels, is to upgrade its network to Read More
Belgium switches to DVB-T2
During the next few weeks, Norkring Belgium is starting to switch over its DTT network from DVB-T to DVB-T2. Starting Monday, April 8, the Read More
First DTT trial in Austria begins (see above)
In Graz, Austria's second largest city, a digital terrestrial television trial began in April 2004. 150 households were involved in the initial Read More
DTT launch in October 2006
Public broadcaster ORF is ready to launch DTT services in October 2006. It will provide services to 70% of the population initially. The Read More
Austria launches Digital Terrestrial TV using DVB-T
Austria chose its National Day (26th October 2006), which commemorates the end of foreign occupation (in 1955), to finally launch its Digital Read More
