The switch from analogue to digital TV services in London next month will be celebrated with a spectacular light show at the Crystal Palace broadcast tower. Arqiva, the company which has engineered the UK’s digital switchover project (DSO), is installing more than 6 tonnes of lighting equipment on the tower in readiness for the light […]
India’s Jain TV has signed with Intelsat to carry Jain’s planned ‘Headend in the Sky’, or HITS platform, which helps support India’s national goal of completing the transition to digital broadcast television signals by 2014. Jain TV Group’s Noida Software Technology Park Limited (NSTPL) signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement for C-band capacity on Intelsat 902 […]
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, is driving towards the digitalisation of television across Russia and has selected to work with Motorola Mobility to expand its digital TV services across the country, which will include the introduction of new video on demand and interactive TV experiences. “This announcement marks the beginning of a strategic collaboration between […]
An installation named 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) has opened at the huge P3 gallery, in a bid to mark the event. One thousand and one large analogue television sets, gathered from a range of places including people’s homes, have been laid on their backs in the P3 gallery of the University of Westminsterthe wired […]
Poland is likely to miss key dates in its plan for switching off its analogue TV transmissions. The original date was November this year, and there’s a statutory obligation in place that analogue must end by July 2013. Poland’s government says there are signs that adequate digital coverage of the country might not now be […]
The Serbian government has introduced changes to its Strategy for the Transition from Analogue to Digital Broadcasting, both in terms of the deadline and function. Earlier rumours from the Ministry of Culture, Information and the Information Society regarding the postponement of the original deadline of April 4th 2012 has now been officially confirmed. The government […]
Taiwan will complete the transition to digital television one year ahead of schedule in 2014, the National Communications Commission has announced. The switch from analogue TV to digital TV will be completed in two main stages, according to NCC Commissioner Chen Cheng-tsang. “During stage one, which will be completed this July, the nation’s five wireless […]
The South African government will not meet its self-imposed deadline of April 2012 to switch on digital terrestrial television, says communications minister Dina Pule, who now expects services will be only be launched commercially in the third quarter of the year. Pule was speaking at her first media briefing since being appointed by President Jacob […]
HDTV household penetration will soon be high enough in developed countries for broadcasters and pay TV operators to consider ending their Standard Definition transmissions, according to a report from Digital TV Research. HD-ready penetration will double from 25.9 per cent at end-2011 to 50.9 per cent in 2016. However, HD-ready penetration will be higher than […]
Technical problems and the lack of new TV channels have so far marred the introduction of DTT in Portugal. On January 5th, the country’s Parliament started an urgent debate to discuss the migration of Portugal’s TV system to digital, as a result of motions filed by the Communist Party (PCP) and the Socialist Party (PS). […]