Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), is the first national broadcaster in Turkey to broadcast its HbbTV VoD services in Dolby Digital Plus. The first content to be streamed will be the historical documentary East to West: The River Flowing Westward from LionTV UK and TRT. TRT’s HbbTV VoD services, also known as TRT ARTI, […]
Early April saw V-Nova introduce its impressive Perseus video compression system. V-Nova claimed Perseus was able to handle Ultra-HD at 7-8 Mb/s comfortably, and UK telco EE endorsed the technical success with a number of trials and test transmissions. However, V-Nova now has a competitor claiming even lower bit-rates. Canada-based Tveon Systems can, it claims, […]
Bringing optical fibre speeds and applications to customers around the world became significantly more achievable for service providers this week, as the Broadband Forum completed innovative work on the management of Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp). Managing fibre-fed nodes in the periphery of the access network using advanced software-based techniques not only opens the […]
A meeting of the DVB Steering Board has approved the Commercial Requirements for the next phase of Ultra High Definition Television, paving the way for the technical work on the specification to progress. The path to UHDTV was set in the ITU in 2012 with a potential list of new features for future television (ITU-R […]
ETSI has just released the latest specification on hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV), TS 102 796 V.1.3.1, which corresponds to HbbTV 2.0. The latest HbbTV release adds support for new capabilities including companion device support, HTML5 user experience and support for advanced video delivery features such as Ultra HD and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) […]
As part of its ongoing efforts to advocate and promote entertainment platforms, products and distribution channels, industry association DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group has developed new artwork and other design elements for the package for Ultra-HD Blu-ray content. The package, which was developed in cooperation with Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, Paramount Home […]
Communications technology specialist Ericsson and Australian telco Telstra have announced the world’s first demonstration of 1 Gbps capability with five carrier LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation integrated on a live end-to-end mobile network. Download speeds of up to 1 Gbps will deliver more reliable performance and user experience across a wide range of applications and media streaming. […]
At an event held on October 20th at Marshal Space Flight Center, NASA personnel conducted successful testing to verify interoperability between five vendor implementations of the Video Services Forum’s (VSF’s) Technical Recommendation 01 (TR-01). TR-01 uses existing standards to define interoperable profiles for real time streaming of a broadcast profile JPEG 2000 codestream wrapped in […]
Digital security specialist The Kudelski Group has confirmed that its OpenTV and Nagra France subsidiaries have filed a patent infringement suit against US telco Verizon Communications and its subsidiary AOL Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The lawsuit alleges that Verizon and AOL infringe seven US patents owned […]
Broadband operator Fastweb has become the first Internet Service Provider in Italy to activate new IPv6 connections for its customers. All new Fastweb customers in Ancona, Bari, Bergamo, Brescia, Busto Arsizio, Legnano, Livorno, Monza, Padua, Pescara, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Varese and Verona will get IPv6 addresses. The service will be available in Milan by the […]