Terrestrial Digital TV (DTT, DTTV, DTV, DVB-T, DVB-T2, …) News

Malaysia Set To Convert To Full Digital TV In 2015
Mar 28, 2007 – The Malaysian government is still optimistic of meeting the 2015 deadline it has set to convert the country’s analogue television system to a fully digital system, Deputy Information Minister Datuk Seri Chia Kwang Chye said Monday. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Malaysia, Terrestrial

Italy - RAI trials IPTV/DTT hybrid set-top boxes
Mar 25, 2007 – Rai Nuovi Media and RaiNet have launched an IPTV/DTT trial using a hybrid set-top box. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Italy, Terrestrial

Spain - Local DTT licenses allocated in Andalucia
Mar 25, 2007 – The Regional Government of Andalucia has begin allocating its regional DTT licenses. Local broadcaster Localia, Canal Sur, La 2 and Tele 5 have each been awarded one DTT television programme service slot. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Zoran licenses S&T's RedKey MHEG Engine
Mar 23, 2007 – Strategy & Technology Limited (S&T) has announced that Zoran has licensed the company’s RedKey(TM) MHEG engine. More …
News categories: Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Austria's RTR to subsidise set-top boxes
Mar 22, 2007 – The Austrian media regulator RTR is to spend 5 million Euros on subsidising 66,666 boxes at 60 Euros each to encourage the transition to digital broadcasting. More …
News categories: Austria, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Hungary prepares for digital licences
Mar 22, 2007 – Daniel Pataki, the president of the National Communications Authority of Hungary (NHH), has said that the country will start to sell digital TV licences next year. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Hungary, Terrestrial

Spain - MHP stays mainly on the plain
Mar 22, 2007 – Just 514 DTT receivers out of 437,000 sold in the Spanish market during the last quarter of 2006 were MHP-enabled. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Middleware, Spain, Terrestrial

Czech Republic - Digital switchover group set-up
Mar 17, 2007 – The broadcast industry has created a new association, Digi Monitor, with the aim of following digital switchover. More …
News categories: Czech Republic, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Kenya stops issuing analogue television licences
Mar 17, 2007 – Kenya has stopped issuing licences for analogue broadcasting in preference to the modern digital television broadcasting, the Minister for Information and Communications, Mutahi Kagwe, announced here Wednesday.
News categories: Digital TV, Kenya, Terrestrial