Mexico City’s analogue TV transmissions will go dark on December 17th, according to the country’s Federal Telecoms Institute (IFT). The nation’s second-largest city, Guadalajara, will have gone dark the day prior, on December 16th. With these two major cities switching to all-digital transmission the nation’s transition to digital TV is near-complete. The IFT regulator said […]
Nigeria is looking to fully embrace digital TV and to use the growth in channels to springboard a “vibrant media economy”. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking in Lagos on November 21st, said the nation’s TV coverage would be 100 per cent digital by the end of next year, up from 49 per cent at the […]
The recent boom in SVoD services, driven by the launch of Netflix, Stan and Presto in Australia has been accompanied by a sharp rise in network data traffic according to a report prepared for Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) by consultancy firm Ovum. Average monthly download usage on the nbn network was 73GB in March […]
Paywizard, the specialist in subscriber management for pay-TV, today announces that it has been selected by Inview, the broadcast and OTT software and services specialist, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of Nigeria, to support the national digital TV switchover project. Working with Inview, Paywizard’s AgileXtra platform will manage all customer data, subscriptions and billing, […]
South Africa’s much-promised and long-delayed digital switch over risks being held up again. The problem on this occasion is a Court action by eTV, South Africa’s 5th terrestrial broadcaster. The Pretoria High Court ruled November 6th that eTV could mount an appeal against the government’s DTT policy. The appeal would be before South Africa’s Supreme […]
At a hearing before the Culture Commission of French Senate about PSB Group France Télévisions and its economic model, president Dephine Ernotte-Cunci, also warned about the risks of blank screens for 7 per cent of viewers next April 5th. Ahead of the DTT switchover to MPEG-4 and the sale of the 700 MHz band to […]
@IBC Advanced Television talks to Altech’s Bartolomeo Caputo about the South African company’s portfolio including end-to-end solutions and integration services and its main markets in Africa, Middle East and APAC. [bitsontherun BhSOLFrt-ni7dlelE]
Thomson Video Networks has announced that the company’s premium HD/SD encoding and video processing solutions are driving the transition to DTT in the Republic of Ivory Coast. French transmitter manufacturer Thomson Broadcast, part of the Arelis Group, has deployed the Thomson Video Networks solutions as the foundation for a pilot DTT video headend for CNM-TNT, […]
Readers may be forgiven for saying that they’ve heard the promise before, but the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has set December 31st 2016 as the date for the nation’s complete transition from analogue TV to all-digital. TRAI’s Regional Head (for Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Goa regions), Sibichen K. Mathew, speaking September 23, said […]
ENENSYS, designers and manufacturers of digital TV transmission technologies, announced that it has been selected by CANAL+ Overseas as a key technology partner for the rollout of the broadcaster’s DTT platform in Africa. TNT Africa, a multi-country sub-Saharan Africa project, is designed to work alongside its existing DTH service Les Bouquets Canal+. ENENSYS is supplying […]