Advanced Television

Digital TV Labs HbbTV test centre

November 15, 2012

Digital TV Labs, which provides independent, specialised receiver conformance products and services, has announced that it is the first HbbTV test centre officially registered by the HbbTV Consortium. The Consortium announced the release of the official HbbTV 1.1.1 Test Suite in August this year, key to HbbTV certification.

Digital TV Labs is the first lab officially licensed to certify compliance with the HbbTV 1.1.1 test suite for the large number of HbbTV-enabled iDTVs and set-top boxes being launched to support the fast-growing HbbTV services. Digital TV Labs can provide test reports in hours rather than days using the highly automated Ligada iSuite test harness.

Additionally using the company’s HbbTV 1.5 test suite incorporating DASH support, compliance testing can be provided for the HbbTV requirements of UK D-Book 7B, and for the French TNT2.0 HbbTV platform. Digital TV Labs has been very closely involved with the development of the official HbbTV Test Suite against the v1.1.1 specification from within the HbbTV Consortium and has authored nearly 50 per cent of its tests.

Keith Potter, Digital TV Labs CEO, says, “We are very pleased to be the first Registered HbbTV Test Centre.  We believe HbbTV conformance testing is vital to ensure interoperability of this fast-growing hybrid technology that is being widely adopted by broadcasters. With our world-wide coverage of DVB and ISDB-T broadcast testing services including Freeview in the UK and now Dolby technologies, Digital TV Labs provides a unique one-stop shop testing service both in our UK and Hong Kong labs”.

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