DVB Project elects new Steering Board

Members elect a new Steering Board for the DVB Project

Last week’s General Assembly of the DVB Project elected a new Steering Board, to serve for the coming two years. It includes representatives of 43 companies across DVB’s four member constituencies.

The companies represented on the DVB Steering Board 2023–2025 are as follows:

• Manufacturers / software suppliers: ATEME, Dolby, ENENSYS, Ericsson, Fraunhofer IIS, HiSilicon, InterDigital, Kineton, LG, MAINDATA, NERC-DTV, Nokia, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, ST Engineering iDirect, TP Vision, V-Nova.
• Content providers / broadcasters: ARD, BBC, Netflix, Rai, RTI-Mediaset, RTL, Sky, TF1, ZDF.
• Governments / national regulatory bodies: Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM), Federal Network Agency (BNetzA, Germany), Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital (Spain), Ofcom (UK).
• Infrastructure providers: Arqiva, Broadpeak, BT, Cellnex, Elettronica Industriale, Eutelsat, Hispasat, Orange, SES, TDF, Telecom Italia.

The names of the Steering Board representatives for the above companies, along with the ex officio members and observers, can be found on the DVB web site.

The Steering Board is responsible for setting the overall policy direction for the DVB Project and handles its coordination, priority setting and management. The Steering Board approves DVB specifications and offers them for standardization to the relevant international standards bodies.

Workplan updated

The outgoing DVB Steering Board met prior to the General Assembly. Among other decisions, it approved an updated version of the detailed DVB Workplan, that sets out information, including anticipated completion dates, about current DVB work items within the Commercial Module and Technical Module.