Uruguay’s publicly-owned Television National del Uruguay (TNU) has started digital terrestrial transmissions in the key Montevideo metropolitan area using the Japanese ISDB-T standard. Uruguay’s Industry Minister, Roberto Kreimerman, was present at the switch-on ceremony along with Japan’s Communications deputy minister, Tetsuo Yamakawa, who explained that the technology would be made available to mobile phones, laptops […]
Following the July 31 announcement that the commercial deployment of the MPEG-DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard is one step closer with the first live public trial, with live MPEG-DASH streaming of the 2012 London Olympics, John Withnell, product manager for Irdeto MediaManager, has noted increased traction for the standard, and its prospects for […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has announced the formal adoption of SCTE 184 and SCTE 186, the first two standards for energy management in the cable telecommunications industry. The standards, the first in a planned portfolio of energy-related specifications for the industry, have been created by the SCTE Standards Program’s Sustainability Management Subcommittee […]
Arqiva Broadcast Holdings’ all-cash offer to buy Spectrum Interactive has been declared unconditional. Just over 94 per cent of Spectrum’s shares had accepted Arqiva’s terms. In essence, Arqiva offered £23.4 million to buy Spectrum, a UK supplier of WiFi hot-spot technology and facilities. The deal makes Arqiva, already the dominant supplier of TV bandwidth in […]
Ofcom has said it is “fully prepared for litigation” should any of the networks decide to sue, following the much-disputed spectrum auction, which will bring 4G superfast mobile Internet to the UK next year. Debate about the largest sale of British airwaves has dragged on for years, with each of the four networks threatening to […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released vendor market share standings and market highlights from its first quarter (1Q12) “Broadband CPE and Subscribers: PON, FTTH, Cable, and DSL” report. “The growth we’re seeing in wideband (DOCSIS 3.0) CPE revenue shows that the infrastructure investments made by operators in DOCSIS 3.0 equipment over the past few […]
DVB has announced that at the 71st Meeting of the Steering Board, Phase 2a of the DVB-3DTV specification was approved. The specification will be submitted immediately to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. An amended DVB-3DTV BlueBook is to be published to reflect the addition to the specification. The Phase 2a system, […]
The European Commission has proposed measures to modernise collecting societies and put in place incentives to promote their transparency and efficiency. Although noting that digital technologies open up opportunities for creators of works, the EC acknowledges that collecting societies struggle to adapt to the requirements of the management of rights for online use of musical […]
SES has announced the certification of the industry’s first SAT-IP converter by Inverto Digital Labs, a Luxembourg-based developer and marketer of consumer and professional broadcast reception products. SAT-IP is a new standard and trademark developed and supported by SES. With SAT-IP, satellite-delivered programmes are converted into Internet Protocol (IP) standard at the point of reception […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK and an active member of the HbbTV hybrid TV standard, has said it welcomes the decision by Intellect, the UK’s trade body for the high technology sector, to consult with broadcasters regarding its preferred way for aligning the UK with HbbTV. […]