As of January 1st, the sale of TV sets with DVB-T/MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 encoding is no longer allowed in Italy. Retailers can market only TV sets with tuner compatible with the new second-generation digital terrestrial standard DVBT-2/HEVC, which allows for more efficient use of frequencies by an estimated 30 per cent compression of the signal. […]

Industry body the Streaming Video Alliance – whose members include a broad range of suppliers, distributors and programmers – has confirmed that trials based on recently-approved Open Caching Request Routing and HTTPS Delegation Technical Specification are to begin. The trials are the first implementation by Alliance member companies of open caching systems that incorporate the […]

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has joined the Society of Motion Pictures & Television Engineers (SMPTE), the organisation whose standards work has supported a century of technological advances in entertainment technology, to join fellow industry leaders in devising standards for software solutions enabling high-quality video experiences. V-Nova will participate with the SMPTE UK […]

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has released test suite version 9.0 which will support the HbbTV 2 specification. The new test suite expands on the existing suite, making it 50 per cent larger with […]

The Broadband Forum has announced the first steps have been taken to form a new industry connectivity and virtualisation committee of global service providers which will resolve how connectivity and virtualisation are bought and sold by service providers worldwide. Founded by the Forum’s Service Provider Action Council (SPAC) – an international autonomous committee of service […]

Three Home Gateway Initiative specifications have been published as Technical Specifications by ETSI. Following the closure of the Home Gateway Initiative in June 2016, work on the three specifications was transferred to ETSI. They have now been published using the ETSI Publicly Available Specification process. The three specifications are ETSI TS 103 424, which deals […]

HomeGrid Forum has announced that Xingtera’s XT1800 G.hn chipset has been awarded its G.hn certification, recognising a high-performance product that allows networking over any form of cabling at a rate of 1 Gigabit per second – a direct result of Xingtera’s ongoing dedication to the development of the chipset. “At HomeGrid Forum we champion industry […]

After consideration of the Commercial Requirements for ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Multicast presented to the 84th meeting of the DVB Steering Board (SB), the decision was made to commit the Technical Module to produce a specification.  The scope of the work will pave the way to providing a harmonised solution to the problem of transmitting […]

Licensing body MPEG LA has announced the availability of the MPEG-DASH (DASH) Patent Portfolio Licence. The joint licence includes patents that are essential to the MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard, which enables high quality streaming of media content over HTTP to be dynamically adapted to changing network conditions to provide smooth, high […]