Following more than 10 months of comprehensive testing in urban and rural areas in and around Cambridge, England, the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises leading international and UK technology and media companies, has successfully demonstrated the potential of television white spaces. The consortium explored and measured a range of applications — rural wireless […]
The Italian government has confirmed the adoption of the DVB-T2 standard for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) reception equipment, from January 1st 2015. Both stand-alone and integrated decoders will have to be compatible with the DVB-T2 standard, and from July 1st 2015 will become the only ones that can be sold on the Italian market. The […]
AirTies Wireless Networks, the innovative supplier of advanced technology to the Broadcast and Broadband industry, hasreceived ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001:2008 is a globally recognised international quality management standard that aims to enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring that companies adhere to regulatory requirements and have mechanisms in place for continued system-wide improvement. AirTies CEO, Bulent […]
Sky Italia, the Italian satellite TV unit of News Corp, is considering taking part in an upcoming auction of television frequencies according to its chief executive. “It’s still early to say,” Andrea Zappia told Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore. “We will decide … only when all the details are known.” The Rome government said this […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined 12 other international broadcasting bodies in founding the landmark Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) initiative in at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. FOBTV stresses the unique attributes of terrestrial broadcasting as a flexible and efficient means of wireless media delivery. Its participants want to facilitate the evolution […]
Broadcom has announced the BCM7014, the industry’s most integrated single chip standard definition MPEG2 cable set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution. Broadcom’s new platform is designed to accelerate India’s cable TV digitisation initiative by providing a cost-efficient system capable of rapid, wide-scale deployment. For more news, visit Broadcom’s Newsroom. Broadcom’s technology can quickly transition India’s […]
The Open Authentication Technology Committee (OATC), a non-profit industry association of programmers/content owners, multi-channel video programme distributors (MVPDs), technology companies, and system integrators, has confirmed its Online Multimedia Authorization Protocol (OMAP) draft specification is now available for public comment and download. The OATC OMAP specification is a voluntary open standard that provides MVPDs and programmers […]
The HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium has announced the publication of version 1.5 of its hybrid TV specification. Building on existing standards and web technologies, the HbbTV specification provides the features and functionality required to deliver feature rich broadcast and internet TV services Version 1.5 of the HbbTV specification notably introduces support for HTTP […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, has published an updated version of the seventh edition of the D-Book, the technical specification for Freeview HD and Connected TV products and services, to its members. New features in Part A (the Freeview HD specification) of the D-Book include: Enhanced […]
The UK’s Video-on-demand (VOD) co-regulator ATVOD has cut its rates for the second consecutive year, driven by the arrival of new VOD entrants. All broadcasters and publishers of VOD services will have their fees, each paid according to turnover, cut by 3.58% from 1 April. Non-commercial providers including charities will pay an annual of £96 […]