Digital TV News: HbbTV Association
Multiperiod DASH and PlayReady SL3000 added to HbbTV reference application
Jun 20, 2022 – The HbbTV Association has announced additions to its DASH DRM Reference Application: multiperiod DASH, as may result from server-side ad insertion (SSAI); and PlayReady SL3000, as is being required more and more by US content providers.
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HbbTV Association, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, Streaming, Worldwide
HbbTV releases HbbTV Conformance Test Suite v2022-1
Apr 6, 2022 – The HbbTV Association has released a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite - v2022-1. The release contains 3,002 test cases in total, and includes an increase of 101 approved test cases since the v2021-3 release.
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HbbTV Association, Vincent Grivet, Digital TV, HbbTV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Worldwide
HbbTV Association launches developer portal
Mar 18, 2022 – The HbbTV Association has launched the HbbTV Developer Portal, targeting software developers looking for a guide on how to programme and run HbbTV applications. The portal also hosts technical documentation and provides a forum for discussion.
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HbbTV Association, Vincent Grivet, Digital TV, HbbTV, Worldwide
HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2022 to be in Prague
Feb 21, 2022 – The 10th HbbTV Symposium and Awards will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 9 and 10, 2022. The annual key summit of the connected TV industry will be co-hosted with the Czech Association of Commercial Television (AKTV).
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HbbTV Association, Vincent Grivet, Marek Singer, Czech Republic, Digital TV, HbbTV, Worldwide
HbbTV Association adds seven new members
Feb 8, 2022 – The HbbTV Association has announced that ATET, Digita Oy, Ocean Blue Software (OBS), Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), Skyworth Group & Shenzhen Chuangwei-RGB Electronics, Synamedia and ZEASN Europe have joined the in the past 12 months.
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HbbTV Association, Vincent Grivet, Digital TV, HbbTV, Worldwide
SERAPHIC releases HbbTV browser SDK 6.0
Jan 6, 2022 – Based on the up-to-date Chromium browser engine, SERAPHIC’s HbbTV SDK 6.0 implements performance improvements, including support for the latest HbbTV 2.0.3 specification and the HbbTV-TA specification, on both Linux and Android platforms.
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SERAPHIC, Xinwen Xue, Advertising, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Worldwide
UK's DTG releases D-Book 12.6
Oct 28, 2021 – The DTG has announced the release of its D-Book 12.6. Previously optional, support for HbbTV now becomes mandatory in the latest version, as the transition away from MHEG continues in the UK.
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DTG, HbbTV Association, Richard Lindsay-Davies, Vincent Grivet, Content Distribution, Digital TV, HbbTV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK
Details of HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2021 announced
Sep 29, 2021 – The HbbTV Association has announced that the HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2021 will take place as an in-person event on November 24-25 at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in France.
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HbbTV Association, Salto, Vincent Grivet, Thomas Follin, Digital TV, France, HbbTV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Worldwide
HbbTV Conformance Test Suite version 2021-2 released
Aug 31, 2021 – The HbbTV Association has published a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite. The v2021-2 release includes new tests developed for Targeted Advertising (HbbTV-TA) and HbbTV specification v2.0.3.
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HbbTV Association, Vincent Grivet, Advertising, Broadcast, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, Smart TV, Worldwide
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