Divitel , an independent system integrator for professional media solutions, has confirmed their delivery of an HbbTV system to SBS Broadcasting. The HbbTV system supplied by Divitel is the first production play-out system that goes live in the Netherlands and thus fits into the strategy of SBS to use HbbTV as the standard for hybrid […]
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Members will be offered generic applications to deploy Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) during the Olympics and the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), when audiences peak. Three ‘white label’ interactive applications will be provided free to participating EBU Members to customise generic content for entertainment, news or sport. The applications from EBU […]
GlobeCast and France 24 have confirmed they will launch a Hybrid Broadband Broadcast Television (HbbTV) trial in early 2012 with the support of Orange and SES. The service, to be offered to satellite viewers of France 24, initially in Western Europe, will add a layer of interactivity to satellite TV programming by harnessing the capability […]
GlobeCast and France 24 announced today that they will launch a Hybrid Broadband Broadcast Television (HbbTV) trial in early 2012 with the support of Orange and SES. The service, to be offered to satellite viewers of France 24, initially in Western Europe, will add a layer of interactivity to satellite TV programming by harnessing the […]
Following Spain’s recent formal approval of the new standard HbbTV, state-owned TV group RTVE is making a full-frontal assault on the connected TV market with the launch of several applications and the signature of agreements with electronic manufacturers to make their content available through the new smart TV sets. RTVE’s HbbTV service includes 50,000 TV programmes […]
More than 20 members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have agreed to collaborate to unlock the full potential of Hybrid TV for a European roll-out of the technology in 2012. This group of public service broadcasters will exchange best practices and support one another to push through a fast, comprehensive roll-out of hybrid television […]
Following the example of Germany, France, Holland and Austria, Spain has agreed to adopt HbbTV as the standard for connected TV. The Ministry of Industry has approved a formal text backed by the whole electronic industry and TV broadcasters including 54 companies to adopt the HbbTV standard to develop new connected TV services. With the […]
Spain’s electronic industry forecasts that connected TV will take off next year in the country with 25 per cent of the estimated 4.5 million TV sets to be sold ready for HbbTV, according to Ametic. In the current year, 15 per cent (675,000) of 4.5 million TV sets sold are HbbTV-ready, but worldwide events like […]
MStar Semiconductor, a semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, has revealed its solution is being adopted by Toshiba in its new TL & RL TV series which are currently being released. With MStar’s solution and support, the TL & RL series will enable the user to merge broadcast TV network and broadband contents […]
Interactive TV software and solutions specialist Alticast and interactive content creation and broadcast playout solutions provider Icareus are further expanding their collaboration after the successful delivery of a variety of DVB-GEM (MHP) applications to the Taiwanese operator KBRO, one of Taiwan’s leading MSOs in 2010. Alticast and Icareus are partnering to fully integrate Alticast’s interactive […]