CASBAA has commented on Vietnam’s ‘Decision 20′ pay-TV regulations which came into effect today. As a result of confusion over the regulations, one satellite provider has taken down 21 international channels. John Medeiros, Chief Policy Officer at CASBAA, said in response to media queries that the situation regarding Vietnamese regulation of the pay-TV industry is notably unclear. “Even Vietnamese operators [...]
at800 has revealed the results of its recent trials in South-East and West London. It revealed that there were no confirmed Freeview problems as a result of the 4G at 800 MHz testing. The results reflect the fact that there is a very strong digital terrestrial television signal in London, and that this is transmitted at frequencies clearly separated from [...]
A federal judge has dismissed a movie producer’s Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregon citizens, saying the company was unfairly using the court’s subpoena power in a “reverse class-action suit” to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less than $10. The [...]
Seven years after the start of the digital swithover in Italy, public broadcaster RAI has launched the first combined fixed and mobile TV transmission in DVB-T2, in the Valle d’Aosta region. The new DVB-T2 Lite standard and innovative MPEG encoding techniques enable RAI to use the same DVB-T2 multiplex for transmission to both fixed and mobile terminals. DVB-T2 Lite has [...]
The influential European Broadcasting Union, which counts Europe’s public broadcasters as its core membership, has severely criticised those governments which have or are planning to use some or all of the 700 MHz band for cellular services. The EBU also accuses the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), an advisory group which assists the European Commission in the use and development [...]
Dolby Digital Plus audio has been chosen as part of the minimum specification for Turkey’s second generation digital terrestrial television systems (DVB-T2) standard for HD and SD receivers. Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) together with the Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) recently published the minimum requirements for receivers in DVB-T2 specifications. Dolby Digital Plus has been identified as a [...]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has published the first status update of the government-backed Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) Taskforce. Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP announced the publication of the update in his keynote speech to delegates at the DTG’s annual Summit: “It’s very [...]
SES has linked with Harmonic and chip-set manufacturer Broadcom to create what it describes as the first Ultra-HDTV transmissions using the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) from Astra’s 19.2 degrees European hot spot. SES says using the HEVC compression improves transmission capacity by some 50 per cent. The end-to-end demonstration was showcased at SES Industry Days in Luxembourg. SES used [...]
Netflix is planning to drop Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in as it prepares to switch to HTML5 video in the coming years. The Netflix Tech Blog cited Micorosoft’s decision to only support Silverlight 5 until 2021 as a reason to “find a replacement.” Netflix said that it has been collaborating with industry leaders on initiatives designed “to solve this problem of playing [...]
US consumer electronics trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has voiced its opposition to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a test procedure for set-top boxes. Doug Johnson, vice president of technology policy, described the department’s rulemaking for set-top boxes as “wasteful and unnecessary” in light of industry leadership and accomplishment on energy efficiency in [...]
