Freeview has published research undertaken by Futuresource Consulting that shows that almost every home in the UK will be able to access Connect TV powered services by the end of 2014. Connect TV brings Internet delivered content to the Freeview Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). The service works on all compliant Freeview HD devices and offers […]
A BBC director has called on mobile network operators to pay for the costs of filters to stop 4G mobile services interfering with Freeview. John Tate, Director of Policy and Strategy for the BBC, told The Independent that operators should be forced to pay the costs of signal filter equipment under the ‘polluter pays’ principle, […]
Motive Television has revealed that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Motive Television Services, has signed a contract with CET 21, a subsidiary of Central European Media Enterprises (CME), to provide its Television Anytime Anywhere technology platform to support CET 21’s anticipated launch of a new television service using its Voyo content platform over DTT in the Czech […]
The TV version of the popular science magazine Focus is set to launch on digital terrestrial television this summer in Italy. The channel, available on position 56, is the result of an agreement between Switchover Media and Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori, which owns the brand of the biggest selling monthly in Italy with its 6.4 million readers. The […]
The CSA reports 99.3 per cent of French homes receive digital TV on at least one TV set, a 7.7 per cent increase over one year. 98.4 per cent of primary TV sets and 82 per cent of the secondary screens are linked to digital TV. DTT is the main provider with 61 per cent […]
Ed Vaizey, the UK’s Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has refuted suggestions that as many as 2.3 million homes risk losing their digital terrestrial TV service as a result of interference from 4G mobile phone signals. Speaking at the Future of Broadcasting Conference in London, Vaizey suggested that the real number was as […]
Richard Lindsay-Davies, Director General, of the UK’s Digital TV Group (DTG) the not-for-profit trade body formed to ensure the successful delivery and evolution of digital TV and associated technologies, has confirmed that the organisation will continue to safeguard the consumer experience of digital terrestrial television and connected TV. Addressing delegates at the Westminster eForum seminar […]
About 370 million digital homes were added around the world between end-2007 and end-2011 – or an average of 93 million more digital homes each year, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the 80 countries covered in the […]
The US Digital Television (DTV) market is continuing on a growth trajectory despite continued talk of cord cutting, according to research from Strategy Analytics. Digital subscriptions will increase from 114 million in 2011 to 129 million in 2016, implying a five-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.36 per cent. Cord cutting – consumers dropping […]
The Italian government’s decision to cancel the “beauty contest”, which would have given away a free digital TV multiplex frequency to existing broadcasters, has led Mediaset to initiate legal action. According to reports, Elettronica Industriale (100 per cent owned by RTI – Mediaset Group) on June 14 filed an appeal with the Lazio Regional Court, […]