The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched development of a 3D broadcast TV standard that will provide methods for transmission of 3DTV content to both fixed and mobile devices, the standards development organisation has confirmed. “The addition of 3DTV over-the-air TV broadcast transmission is part of our ongoing effort to expand the capabilities of […]
Digital TV Labs, provider of receiver conformance products and services, has developed and shipped the first commercially available receiver test suite for digital terrestrial deployments of the ISDB-T standard, beginning with test services for South America. The company’s new ISDB-T Evora iSuite can directly test against the Brazilian receiver specification, providing manufacturers with a fast […]
Spain’s Industry Ministry has revealed that the successful bidders in a spectrum auction will pay a total of €1.65 billion as they look to launch high-speed fourth-generation services. The country’s three main mobile telcos – Telefónica, Vodafone and France Telecom’ secured spectrum in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands in the auction. Vodafone paid €518 million […]
Metanoia Communications and Xingtera have joined HomeGrid Forum and recognise the importance of G.hn as the single unified standard for wired home networking. “The market will move to whichever standard is able to attract the most silicon vendors and customers to support the technology,” said Matt Theall, President of HomeGrid Forum. “With two more silicon […]
An estimated 4 per cent of occupied US households – 4.5 million homes –will have substituted Internet video options for cable, satellite or telco TV service by the end of 2011, according to research firm SNL Kagan. “Though the thin slice of households relying [on OTT] substitution could be dismissed as evidence of a lack […]
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) experienced unprecedented growth in the number of DLNA Certified televisions during the first quarter of 2011, certifying more than 1,000 models in North America, Europe, Korea and Japan. The number of television models Certified by the Alliance in the first three months of the year was greater than the […]
An Israeli company is proposing a more efficient successor to the DVB transmission system. Novelsat’s engineers have already tested their signals on Eutelsat’s W3A satellite as well as on AsiaSat 5, Amos-3 and an Intelsat craft. Novelsat say they gained an average improvement of 28 per cent over today’s DVB-S2 second-generation transmission standard. The current […]
To gather views on how Europe can seize opportunities created by advances in digital technology and the Internet, and move towards a digital single market, the European Commission has published a Green Paper on the initiative of Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, in agreement with Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Androulla Vassilliou, […]
ATIS announced that its Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released the CDN Interconnection Use Case Specification and High Level Requirements (ATIS-0200003) standards document. The standard provides an initial description of content distribution networks (CDNs) and develops interconnection use cases and high-level requirements to support passing content distribution requests between two service providers. The standard enables […]
Ofcom is considering using the airwaves freed up when FM radio goes digital to provide rural broadband. So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover. Ofcom believes they would work equally well in the FM spectrum. There is no set date for […]