The FTTH Council Europe has welcomed the legislative proposals of the European Commission revising Europe’s telecoms rulebook. The proposal sends an important signal that the policy and regulatory landscape is shifting towards prioritising fibre investments. Focusing on infrastructure based competition and regulatory tools that enable it, such as duct access is the right policy choice […]
Sony has rolled out its latest 4.0 system update (codenamed ‘Shingen’) for the PlayStation 4 that will bring High Dynamic Range (HDR) support to all models. Users with a HDR TV set can use the new HDR feature with both gaming and entertainment content that supports HDR. Netflix has confirmed plans to stream HDR content […]
Agama Technologies, a specialist in video service quality and customer experience, has joined the Reference Design Kit (RDK) community as a licensee. The integration with the RDK pre-integrated software solution will further broaden the applicability of Agama’s assurance and analytics solution to RDK powered set-top boxes. Analytics and automation based on large amounts of data […]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) – an international, non-profit organisation developing voluntary standards for digital television – has confirmed that the Physical Layer transmission system for ATSC 3.0 next-generation television broadcasting has been approved as a Final Standard, signalling that the standardisation process for the entire ATSC 3.0 process is nearing completion. ATSC members […]
After extensive consultations, the Ultra HD Forum – the global organisation responsible for promoting market adoption of Ultra HD by defining industry best practices – has made the latest version of its industry Guidelines public prior to IBC. Along with thorough internal reviews of the Guidelines, the following bodies were also consulted for comment: ATSC, […]
The newly published ETSI specification TS 102 796 V1.4.1 on hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) will allow the United Kingdom and Italy to implement the latest technologies in their receivers. With the large installed base of receivers in the UK and Italy, there will be a transitional period where broadcasters will provide apps and services […]
The departure of current CTO Simon Gauntlett at the end of September to take up the position of Director of Imaging Standards and Technology at Dolby will see UK digital TV group DTG reorganise its leadership as well as driving a range of leadership programmes over the next year to keep the UK at the […]
Bindinc (Netherlands), media-press.TV (Poland, Germany and Switzerland), and Plurimedia (France) are the founding members of The European Metadata Group The purpose of the Group is to offer top quality metadata to the European entertainment industry based on strong local expertise in all the various countries. To reach the highest quality metadata possible, within the Group […]
Dimetis, a software company in broadcast and telecommunication, will build up the new DVB-T2 playout for Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (rbb) and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), after winning the respective European tender. The innovative playout infrastructure comprises of main and backup system, locally separated in a private cloud deployment which is used by rbb and MDR mutually. […]
There are a couple of satellite builders looking to build ‘rescue tugs’ in order to provide help for ailing satellites. Now DARPA (the USA’s Defense Research Projects Agency) is looking to set standards and practices for future on-orbit satellite servicing. Most of the world’s major satellite operators are looking at contracting with one or other […]