Europe Digital TV News

Alcatel-Lucent provides optical technology to Telecom Italia for ultra-broadband and TV services
Jun 3, 2015 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris; NYSE: ALU) is to provide its 100 Gbps agile optical networking technology to Telecom Italia as the Italian national service provider transforms its infrastructure to support the delivery of ultra-broadband internet and TV services.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Telecom Italia, Roberto Loiola, Content Distribution, Fibre, IPTV, Italy, Streaming

Vodafone continues to gain pay TV share in Portugal
Jun 3, 2015 – According to Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), there were 3.404 million subscribers to subscription TV in the country at the end of the first quarter of 2015, 54,000 (+1.6 percent) more than in the previous quarter, and an extra 194,000 (+6.1 percent) compared to the same point in 2014.
News categories: ANACOM, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers, TV Services

New DVB-T2/HEVC pilot begins in the Czech Republic
Jun 2, 2015 – České Radiokomunikace (ČRa) has announced the start of a new trial of DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television transmission using High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compression. Three channels are being broadcast in the advanced format.
News categories: České Radiokomunikace, Content Distribution, Czech Republic, DVB-T2, Terrestrial

Unified Streaming selected by maxdome for MPEG-DASH streaming
Jun 2, 2015 – maxdome, Germany’s most popular online video platform, has selected Unified Streaming, a provider of cross-platform streaming technologies, for streaming Widevine Modular encrypted MPEG-DASH to address Google Chrome users.
News categories: Unified Streaming, maxdome, Simon Westbroek, Digital TV, Germany, Media Player, Streaming

ITU symposium to mark switchover from analogue to digital TV
Jun 1, 2015 – The deadline for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, set for 17 June 2015, is applicable for all countries belonging to ITU Region-1 and Iran. ITU will mark this milestone with a symposium at its headquarters in Geneva.
News categories: International Telecommunication Union, Houlin Zhao, Africa, Asia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Middle-East, Terrestrial

EE trials live 4G broadcast of FA Cup final at Wembley stadium
May 31, 2015 – EE demonstrated live 4G Broadcast at the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. During the trial EE connected multiple devices to one broadcast stream of live footage over its 4G mobile network, and put viewers in control of multiple camera angles and replays using tablets.
News categories: EE, Olaf Swantee, Matt Stagg, 5G, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, UK

More than half a million customers for Swisscom TV 2.0
May 28, 2015 – Swisscom has announced that after just 14 months, more than half a million customers are now using its Swisscom TV 2.0 service, boosted particularly by the switch-off of analogue TV in many regions of Switzerland.
News categories: Swisscom, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Switzerland

iTEAM carry out UHD-1 Phase-2 trials over DVB-T2 in Spain
May 28, 2015 – Researchers at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain, have carried out the first transmission trials using DVB-T2 with the Ultra HD format known as 'UHD-1 Phase-2'.
News categories: iTEAM, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Spain, Terrestrial

Thomson Video Networks supports CHILI Ultra HD OTT in Italy
May 27, 2015 – Thomson Video Networks has announced that CHILI, the Italian digital distributor of movies and TV series, is using its ViBE VS7000 multi-screen and HEVC encoding platform to deliver HEVC 4K content via its movie service platform.
News categories: Thomson Video Networks, CHILI, NexGuard, Eric Gallier, Stefano Flamia, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Italy, Streaming