Digital TV News: European Broadcasting Union
EBU publishes DVB-T2 planning guidance
May 18, 2011 – The EBU has published a report on network and frequency planning for DVB-T2 terrestrial television services. It is complementary information to the ETSI system specification and implementation guideline and the corresponding DVB Blue Books.
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European Broadcasting Union, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Terrestrial
EBU publishes Principles for Internet-Connected and Hybrid Television
Apr 15, 2011 – The EBU has adopted its 'Principles for Internet-Connected and Hybrid Television' which, if applied, it believes could deliver lower costs, greater choice and a better viewing experience for consumers.
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European Broadcasting Union, Europe, Middleware, Streaming
ANT Galio HbbTV Platform Launched For New Standard
Sep 4, 2009 – ANT (LSE AIM: ANTP) has announced the launch of ANT Galio HbbTV Platform. The release, building on the already deployed ANT Galio Platform, is a complete go-to-market solution providing full support for Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) services.
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ANT plc, HbbTV, Kaonmedia, Digital TV, HbbTV, IBC2023, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming
European Initiative Merges Television with the Power of the Internet
Aug 27, 2009 – A European consortium has announced the launch of 'Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV' or 'HbbTV', an initiative aimed at harmonising the delivery of content to the end consumer through TVs and set-top boxes with an optional web connection.
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Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, IBC2023, IFABerlin, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Approves Publication of FLO™ Air Interface Specification
Feb 16, 2009 – The FLO Forum is pleased to recognize the decision of the EBU / CENELEC / ETSI Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Broadcast to publish ETSI TS 102 589, 'Forward Link Only Air Interface; Specification for Terrestrial Mobile; Multimedia Multicast.'
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FLO Forum, Mobile, Smart TV
P2P-Next Project presents world's first video end-to-end streaming distribution
Sep 11, 2008 – P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 partners, has released its first version of NextShare, an Open Source P2P video delivery platform, at IBC 2008. NextShareTV is a set-top box implementation running on low-cost embedded hardware.
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P2P-Next, Broadband, Digital TV, IBC2023, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming
European research project to shape next generation internet TV
Feb 19, 2008 – P2P-Next has received a €14 million grant from the European Union to carry out a research project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology for Internet Television of the future.
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P2P-Next, Austria, Broadband, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Streaming, Sweden, UK
TVNZ To Go HDTV For Beijing Olympics
Sep 28, 2007 – TVNZ will introduce High Definition TV on the Freeview Digital Terrestrial platform (DTT), which is timed to go live during the first half of next year.
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TVNZ, Freeview NZ, ATSC 3, Digital TV, New Zealand, Terrestrial
Brazilian Forum for Digital TV Selects Coding Technologies' and DTS' MPEG-4 aacPlus/DTS Audio Solution for Digital Terrestrial Television Based on ISDB-T
Sep 7, 2007 – Coding Technologies has announced that the company's aacPlus audio solution has been selected by the Brazilian Digital TV Forum for Brazil's digital terrestrial ISDB-T platform to be officially launched on December 2nd, 2007.
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ATSC 3, Brazil, Digital TV, IBC2023, ISDB-T, Terrestrial
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