More than 20 members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have agreed to collaborate to unlock the full potential of Hybrid TV for a European roll-out of the technology in 2012. This group of public service broadcasters will exchange best practices and support one another to push through a fast, comprehensive roll-out of hybrid television […]
Following the example of Germany, France, Holland and Austria, Spain has agreed to adopt HbbTV as the standard for connected TV. The Ministry of Industry has approved a formal text backed by the whole electronic industry and TV broadcasters including 54 companies to adopt the HbbTV standard to develop new connected TV services. With the […]
Spain’s electronic industry forecasts that connected TV will take off next year in the country with 25 per cent of the estimated 4.5 million TV sets to be sold ready for HbbTV, according to Ametic. In the current year, 15 per cent (675,000) of 4.5 million TV sets sold are HbbTV-ready, but worldwide events like […]
MStar Semiconductor, a semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, has revealed its solution is being adopted by Toshiba in its new TL & RL TV series which are currently being released. With MStar’s solution and support, the TL & RL series will enable the user to merge broadcast TV network and broadband contents […]
Interactive TV software and solutions specialist Alticast and interactive content creation and broadcast playout solutions provider Icareus are further expanding their collaboration after the successful delivery of a variety of DVB-GEM (MHP) applications to the Taiwanese operator KBRO, one of Taiwan’s leading MSOs in 2010. Alticast and Icareus are partnering to fully integrate Alticast’s interactive […]
As IBC 2011 gets under way, the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium has revealed that since opening for membership in May 2011, it has now reached fifty members. HbbTV is an industry initiative that brings together broadcast and broadband TV services into one seamless user experience. The HbbTV standard utilises existing standards and web […]
Kabelkiosk is launching an HbbTV interactive service ‘interaktiv’ on Eutelsat. The ‘headend in the sky’ platform offer will include VoD, catch-up TV, and local information with VoD services delivered on a platform operated by Rovi. Individual channels delivered by KabelKiosk will also be able to use interaktiv for catch-up TV, VoD, EPG services and red […]
Harvard International has announced the launch of a new range of free-to-air HD set top boxes with HbbTV based companion device (smart phone or tablet computer) functionality. The range will provide consumers with a simple way to upgrade and future-proof their TV experience, enabling consumers to be more digitally connected than ever before. It will […]
Acknowledging that it was “great” that a lot of innovation was happening in connected TV, Simon Gauntlett, Technology Director at the Digital TV Group (DTG) has declared that to achieve a mass-market solution, which ensures consumers enjoy a great experience, common standards need to be agreed and adopted across the industry. He told delegates at […]
In an unprecedented move, public broadcaster RTVE, Mediaset Spain, owner of commercial TV channels Tele 5 and Cuatro and operator of other DTT channels like Fiction Factory, La Siete, Boing and Divinity, and telco Telefonica have entered into an alliance to trial a joint HbbTV service. The service will allow the viewer to have access […]