Advanced Television

HEVC

DVB approves next-gen video codecs commercial requirements

Digital media delivery industry consortium the DVB Project has endorsed commercial requirements for next generation video codecs to pave the way for advanced 4K and 8K services. Work will now commence to investigate the technical compliance of the candidate codecs with the commercial requirements and to develop draft specifications. The compliance of the proposed solutions […]

July 2, 2021

Report: Pandemic drives broadcasters’ IP adoption

Seventy-one per cent of broadcast and video streaming professionals say that Covid-19 has accelerated the IP adoption process within their organisation, according to the findings of the second annual Broadcast IP Transformation Report  from real-time video streaming and networking solutions provider Haivision. Haivision surveyed its broadcast customers and prospects to gain clearer insights into what […]

March 26, 2021

Samsung: “8K is the future”

Richard Moreton, from Samsung Electronics’ R&D UK Business Development & Industrial Affairs unit, told delegates to the virtual 4K Summit that 8K is absolutely on Samsung’s agenda. “We very much see a future for 8K, not just to be selling [TV] panels but in the use of this new technology to enable and grow the […]

November 25, 2020By Chris Forrester

Croatia to start transition to DVB-T2 in October

The transition from DVB-T to DVB-T2/HEVC in Croatia will start on October 27th and last until November 12th. The information has been announced by DTT network operator Odasiljaci i Veze (OiV) which has also published a timetable for the switchover for the country’s nine digital regions. The DVB-T2/HEVC signal will cover 97 per cent of […]

July 13, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome