Advanced Television

DTT/DSO

Uruguay starts ISDB-T transmissions

Uruguay’s publicly-owned Television National del Uruguay (TNU) has started digital terrestrial transmissions in the key Montevideo metropolitan area using the Japanese ISDB-T standard. Uruguay’s Industry Minister, Roberto Kreimerman, was present at the switch-on ceremony along with Japan’s Communications deputy minister, Tetsuo Yamakawa, who explained that the technology would be made available to mobile phones, laptops […]

August 14, 2012By Chris Forrester

17m use BBC Red Button for Olympics

The BBC Sport website has seen an 80 per cent rise in users, with Olympics webpages attracting a peak of nearly 8 million readers natively and 10.4 million globally. The website has received 29 million requests for its Olympics interactive video streams, with a clip of Bradley Wiggins winning his gold medal seeing 729,000 requests […]

August 6, 2012

Spain’s TV fragmentation reaches its peak

Fragmentation in Spanish TV market is intensifying with the three largest TV channels – Tele 5, Antena 3 and La 1 – pulling in a combined audience share of only 36.5 per cent. Tele 5 led the ratings in July with an average share of 13.3 per cent followed by Antena 3 with 12.5 per […]

August 1, 2012From David Del Valle in Madrid

UK Lords propose online terrestrial broadcasting switch

A report from a Committee of the UK’s House of Lords – the upper legislative chamber – has recommended that the Government and industry should consider the long term possibility of switching terrestrial broadcast from spectrum to the Internet. The recommendation was one of some 50 in the report – Broadband for all – an […]

July 31, 2012By Colin Mann

Freeview TV guide overhaul

Following an industry-wide consultation, DTT Multiplex Operators Limited (DMOL) – the body licensed by Ofcom as the programme guide provider for Freeview which manages the central functions of the platform – has published the findings of its review of Freeview channel numbering and plans to update the on-screen programme guide. The reorganisation is designed to […]

July 31, 2012

Digital TV now covers all of Brazil

Brazil’s Digital TV System Forum (SBTVD) has said that digital television signals now reach all of the country’s federal states. This means that some 90 million Brazilians can get digital TV with suitable receivers or converter boxes. The use of additional local repeaters is increasingly extending the technical reach of the main transmitters so that […]

July 27, 2012By Chris Forrester

Six bidders for Malaysia digital TV broadcasting deal

At least six companies are expected to submit their business plans to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to bid for the rights to be the common integrated infrastructure provider (CIIP) for the rolling out of digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB). The entire cost of the project, including the cost of subsidising set-top boxes, […]

July 24, 2012

BRIC countries to drive DTT receivers market

The global active base for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Receivers is projected to reach 2.4 billion units by 2018, driven by TV digitisation in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries, according to GIA research. Future growth in the demand for DTT Receivers will also be driven by the widespread adoption of digital TV standards […]

July 23, 2012

Minister confirms TV interference prevention scheme

UK Communication Minister Ed Vaizey has confirmed the terms of the £180 million scheme to help householders prevent 4G services interfering with television signals. The scheme was originally announced in February 2012. In a letter to UK comms regulator Ofcom – which ran a consultation on the issues for digital TV raised by the launch […]

July 12, 2012By Colin Mann

DTG welcomes Intellect HbbTV consultation

The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK and an active member of the HbbTV hybrid TV standard, has said it welcomes the decision by Intellect, the UK’s trade body for the high technology sector, to consult with broadcasters regarding its preferred way for aligning the UK with HbbTV. […]

July 11, 2012By Colin Mann