Sky Italia, the Italian satellite TV unit of News Corp, is considering taking part in an upcoming auction of television frequencies according to its chief executive. “It’s still early to say,” Andrea Zappia told Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore. “We will decide … only when all the details are known.” The Rome government said this […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined 12 other international broadcasting bodies in founding the landmark Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) initiative in at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. FOBTV stresses the unique attributes of terrestrial broadcasting as a flexible and efficient means of wireless media delivery. Its participants want to facilitate the evolution […]
Broadcom has announced the BCM7014, the industry’s most integrated single chip standard definition MPEG2 cable set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution. Broadcom’s new platform is designed to accelerate India’s cable TV digitisation initiative by providing a cost-efficient system capable of rapid, wide-scale deployment. For more news, visit Broadcom’s Newsroom. Broadcom’s technology can quickly transition India’s […]
The Open Authentication Technology Committee (OATC), a non-profit industry association of programmers/content owners, multi-channel video programme distributors (MVPDs), technology companies, and system integrators, has confirmed its Online Multimedia Authorization Protocol (OMAP) draft specification is now available for public comment and download. The OATC OMAP specification is a voluntary open standard that provides MVPDs and programmers […]
The HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium has announced the publication of version 1.5 of its hybrid TV specification. Building on existing standards and web technologies, the HbbTV specification provides the features and functionality required to deliver feature rich broadcast and internet TV services Version 1.5 of the HbbTV specification notably introduces support for HTTP […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, has published an updated version of the seventh edition of the D-Book, the technical specification for Freeview HD and Connected TV products and services, to its members. New features in Part A (the Freeview HD specification) of the D-Book include: Enhanced […]
The UK’s Video-on-demand (VOD) co-regulator ATVOD has cut its rates for the second consecutive year, driven by the arrival of new VOD entrants. All broadcasters and publishers of VOD services will have their fees, each paid according to turnover, cut by 3.58% from 1 April. Non-commercial providers including charities will pay an annual of £96 […]
UK Mobile network 3 has warned is ready to take legal action against Ofcom and derail the already long-delayed 4G spectrum auction. The sell-off, which could raise as much as £4 billion (€4.8bn) for the Treasury, is scheduled for early 2013. 3, the newest and smallest mobile network in the UK with a 10 per […]
O2 has voiced its anger at Ofcom for giving Everything Everywhere provisional approval to rollout a 4G network. O2 has said that Ofcom is contradicting itself by allowing Everything Everywhere to rollout 4G using its 1800MHz spectrum before its rivals. O2 believes this gives Everything Everywhere an unfair advantage which goes against Ofcom’s aim to […]
Ofcom has reprimanded Travel Channel International after an investigation found instances of competition winners being chosen by staff “pointing at a spreadsheet” and UK entrants being deliberately prevented from being able to win some prizes. The channel, broadcast across the UK and Europe since 1993, has been “put on notice” by the UK media regulator, […]