Digital UK – the company which supports the UK’s terrestrial TV service and its viewers – has called on UK comms regulator Ofcom to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to protect terrestrial television services from interference which could be caused by the use of the so-called White Spaces – the gaps in the spectrum […]
Members of the ITU have accorded first-stage approval of G.fast, the new ITU broadband standard capable of achieving access speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s over existing telephone wires. Within 250-metre range of a distribution point, G.fast’s fibre-like speeds give service providers a tool to supplement and further monetise fibre to the home (FTTH) strategies […]
The Board of Directors of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) has congratulated Entropic, a specialist in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, for its efforts in its completion of Golden Nodes for the MoCA 2.0 specification. “Approval of Golden Node Certification demonstrates our firm belief that MoCA 2.0 is the best wired technology standard […]
US digital television standards body the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has elevated the A/105 ‘Interactive Services’ system to Candidate Standard. A key element of the emerging ATSC 2.0 standard, A/105 is designed to enable the marriage of Internet-delivered and broadcast content. ‘Candidate Standard’ status is a major step toward becoming a ‘Proposed Standard’, and […]
Sony Japan is making available a software update for its Bravia X-range of 4K displays. The upgrade means that the giant TV sets can now handle HDMI v2.0 connectivity. Sony has two X-models in the market measuring 55” (X8) and 65” (X9). As yet there are no instructions on whether the update is available to […]
At the 75th meeting of the DVB Steering Board, the new DVB-GSE-Lite (Generic Stream Encapsulation) specification was ratified. The specification will now be submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. A GSE-Lite BlueBook will be published shortly. The DVB-GSE protocol allows for efficient encapsulation of IP and other network layer packets […]
The planet still has some 23,182 channels broadcasting in Standard Definition. Of this total, says Northern Sky Research, 73 per cent are still transmitting in MPEG-2 or similar SD systems. In other words, MPEG-4, a newer compression system, has yet to make any progress in some key markets. Even amongst markets considered to be classified […]
bitmovin, a specilaist in adaptive media streaming solutions has released its new bitdash 2.0 streaming & client optimisation framework, enabling up to 100 per cent higher streaming performance. The MPEG DASH standard for adaptive bitrate HTTP streaming is designed for media delivery to a highly diverse set of target devices, platforms and screens, using existing […]
Hitron Technologies, a supplier of DOCSIS products, has confirmed that their CGNV4 Residential Gateway passed EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification. CGNV4 has been developed as a future proof and advanced residential gateway that can provide download speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second by bonding 24 downstream channels. “As Hitron Technologies, we have always been working […]
The president of the Philippines has confirmed that the country will adopt Japan’s ISDB digital transmission system. While the decision is not unexpected, Benigno Aquino III , signed off the bill which authorises the nation’s National Telecoms Commission to begin groundwork for the transmissions. Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., in a press briefing […]