Advanced Television

HbbTV

HbbTV “at the heart of broadcasters’ new platforms”

HbbTV will be a key element of the new hybrid broadcast and OTT platforms currently being prepared by major European public and commercial broadcasters in countries such as Germany, France and Spain after similar moves in the UK and Italy for instance. This was confirmed by representatives of the involved broadcasters at the 7th HbbTV […]

November 21, 2018

DVB, HbbTV release DASH validation tool

DVB, an industry consortium that develops open interoperable technical specifications for the delivery of digital media and broadcast services, has collaborated with the HbbTV Association to create a DASH validation tool for application developers and content providers. The newly released tool conducts checks of ISO/IEC 23009-1 MPEG-DASH media presentation descriptions (MPDs) and segments to ensure […]

November 12, 2018

US broadcast majors commit to ATSC 3.0

At the 2018 NAB Show New York, executives from FOX Television Stations; NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Group; Univision; TEGNA (for Pearl TV), and Nexstar Media Group (for SpectrumCo) announced their collaborative effort and support for the introduction of next-generation broadcast TV standard ATSC 3.0, designed to enhance greatly over-the-air services for viewers while bringing […]

October 18, 2018By Colin Mann

Google, Sky, RAI join HbbTV Association

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 announced that seven new companies have joined the industry association in the past 12 months. The new members include Google, Sky, Italian public broadcaster RAI, Greek public broadcaster […]

October 16, 2018

Tivù partners with Vewd

Tivù, the company that manages Italy’s leading free-to-view satellite TV platform tivùsat, has become the  first operator to deploy an HbbTV Operator App (OpApp) together with Vewd, a global specialist in enabling OTT. tivùon, Tivù’s OpApp, creates a virtual STB with an operator’s own UI and applications to offer a more engaging and branded user […]

September 11, 2018

New HbbTV portals for all ProSiebenSat.1 channels

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is rolling out the red carpet for new entertainment via HbbTV. By pressing on the red button on their remote control, viewers can open up the entertainment worlds of ProSieben, SAT.1, kabel eins, sixx, ProSieben MAXX, SAT.1 Gold, and kabel eins Doku on smart TV. The main components of the realignment are […]

August 20, 2018

Wowza adds DASH to stream engine

Wowza Media Systems today announced support of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) nDVR to its award-winning Wowza Streaming Engine™ software, with a new update to version 4.7.6. The support of nDVR for MPEG-DASH allows adaptive bitrate streaming applications to implement pause, rewind, play and “jump-to-live” playback functionality for live video. “By offering the nDVR […]

August 7, 2018

HbbTV releases Version 2018-2 of conformance test suite

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 announced that its new version of the HbbTV conformance test suite has been published. This is the second and most relevant release out of the three annual releases. […]

July 23, 2018

BBC: ‘2018 most live-streamed World Cup’

A massive 44.5 million tuned in to watch one of the most entertaining World Cup tournaments to date on the BBC this summer, according to figures released by the Corporation. Millions across the country have witnessed moments that will stay with them forever, including England reaching its first semi-final in 28 years. The Three Lions’ […]

July 17, 2018

HbbTV Association releases DASH DRM Reference Application

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 announced the release of its DASH DRM Reference Application. Although the HbbTV specifications are agnostic with respect to DRM systems, the ability of content providers to deliver DRM […]

July 13, 2018