Finland’s largest cable TV operator DNA has revealed plans to bring HDTV to 1.5 million Finnish homes by 2011, with availability in the largest Finnish cities already by the year-end. A deal with Ericsson will enable DNA will make the HDTV experience available for 60 per cent of all Finnish digital terrestrial TV households […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has announced that DTG Testing, the digital television industry’s test and conformance centre, is to provide manufacturers with a single facility for Connected TV, HbbTV, Freeview, Freesat and Digital Tick test and conformance. Additionally, DTG Testing is working with Project […]
A new five-year deal between Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC, and Ericsson will help address rural DTT blindspots. Thanks to Ericsson’s latest satellite video compression technology, the ABC will be able to expand the reach of its high-definition and standard-definition digital TV programming across the country. As Australia undergoes the switch from analogue to […]
Saudi Arabia could be around two years away from having a free, content-rich alternative to satellite TV, similar in many respects to the UK’s Freeview. Despite just about every home in the Kingdom owning a satellite dish – or dishes – and most of the major satellite channels being financed by Saudi cash, the […]
Ofcom has approved the use of DTT spectrum freed up by DSO for Sky Sports 1 and 2 paving the way for BT to offer the channels as part of BT Vision. Like Virgin, BT will a (more) aggressively priced package reflecting the regulated wholesale prices imposed on Sky in March. Both Virgin and BT […]
From Colin Mann in Monte Carlo Monaco Telecom has launched the Principality's next generation, connected TV experience, bringing the telco's vision of tomorrow's connected home a step closer to reality. The initiative comprises three new developments: the launch of a new generation TVBox, the arrival of a number of new channels and video on demand […]
Minister Eamon Ryan has said a DTT test will launch in Ireland this October of this year, the latest in a long line of trials for the standard since 2006. Minister Ryan said he had told RTE that a full DTT service will be up and running in Ireland by 31st December 2011. This will […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Tivuitalia, a company controlled by Italian broadcast equipment manufacturer Screen Service Broadcasting Technologies (SSBT), has become the country's latest DTT network operator. The group has filed with the national regulator AgCom a “declaration of commencement of activities” as a national TV multiplex operator. Tivuitalia will be a network provider for […]
Sky Italia has a “monopolistic position” in the country and the Mediaset chairman warned legal disputes between the companies will continue until there is a level playing field. Fedele Confalonieri, a close friend of Mediaset owner Silivio Berlusconi, dismissed protests from the satellite broadcaster that it should be allowed to broadcast pay-TV channels on the […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain has paved the way for the launch of HDTV on DTT with Government approval of a Royal Decree to govern the new services using the standard H.264/MPEG 4. To promote HDTV, the law obliges manufacturers to equip TV sets of more than 21 inches with an integrated HDTV […]