MPEG LA, which handles licensing for the core MPEG/MPEG2 patents, has filed a suit in Florida claiming that Motorola Mobility “wilful infringements” of the MPEG-2 compression standard. The filing, made in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Motorola Mobility supplied set-top boxes which used the MPEG-2 standard yet were […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, has confirmed the launch of the UK UHD Forum. Co-chaired by Chris Johns, Chief Engineer, Broadcast Strategy at BSkyB and Andy Quested, the BBC’s Head of Technology for BBC HD and UHDTV, the group will co-ordinate UK requirements to build a […]
Following the completion of the country’s digital switchover, Australian free-to-air television is planning its next technological evolution combining broadcasting and the Internet. Freeview Australia – the industry grouping comprising free-to-air licensees Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service, Seven Network, Nine Network, Network Ten, Prime Media Group and Southern Cross Broadcasting – is working with the […]
HomeGrid Forum has announced that twelve new products from seven vendors have passed certification testing for HomePNA interoperability and compliance. The newly certified HomePNA products feature set-top boxes from Arris and Kaon Media, residential gateways from ZyXEL and Pace, an Ethernet to HomePNA bridge from Cameo, ONTs from Calix and a new reference board from […]
G.fast, a new ITU broadband standard, that promises up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper telephone wires, is one step closer following a meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15. G.fast is designed to deliver superfast downloads up to a distance of 250 meters, thereby eliminating the expense of installing fibre between the distribution point and […]
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced publication of a new standard, CEA-861-F, A DTV Profile for Uncompressed High-Speed Digital Interfaces. This standard applies to a variety of DTV-related high-speed digital physical interfaces, such as: the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Digital Visual Interface (DVI) 1.0, and Open LVDS Display Interface (LDI) specifications. “CEA-861-F is a […]
DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF), the organisation dedicated to promoting interoperable streaming of multimedia content over Internet, has released DASH-AVC/264, its recommended guidelines for deployment of the MPEG-DASH standard. The MPEG-DASH specification provides a standard method for streaming multimedia content over Internet by simplifying and converging delivery of IP video. This improves user experience while decreasing […]
Following tests conducted across the country, at800, the organisation responsible for protecting Freeview when 4G at 800 MHz is rolled out across the UK, has provided a new estimate of the likely scale of the impact. If national rollout reflects the results seen during its tests, at800 expects no more than 90,000 households, with Freeview […]
German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland has started transmission of the new DVB-C2 standard on cable channel D794 (794 MHz centre frequency) at ANGA COM 2013 as part of an extended DVB-C2 field trial in its CATV networks in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. The field trial will migrate into a regular service as soon as relevant […]
The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has published a profile of HTML5, CSS, DOM3 and other related web technologies aimed at connected TV services and devices that implement a browser-based application environment. It describes a common profile based on the latest, stable web technologies defined by the W3C that are expected to be implemented by connected […]