US trade body the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and its member companies have launched the official industry display definition and logo for 8K Ultra High-Definition (UHD) televisions – for use beginning with 2020 model products – to help retailers and consumers identify products that meet the technology industry’s 8K Ultra HD requirements. The logo and […]
The UK’s television industry is strongly skewed towards people from privately-educated backgrounds, according to research on the sector’s diversity from regulator Ofcom . Ofcom’s annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report examines the social and economic background of the television industry for the first time this year. It also reports on companies’ progress in […]
AT&T shareholders, complaining that telco giant AT&T artificially “faked” inflated subscriber numbers, have filed a class Action. Also named in the Action is Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner’s CEO. The action was filed in the Southern District of New York with various individual plaintiffs and pension funds, and demanding a jury trial. The Action centres on […]
South Africa’s media regulator ICASA wants certain key sporting events to be classified as of significant public interest and made available to free-to-air broadcasters. However, the sporting rights-holders are not happy, arguing that the proposals extend beyond the current situation – where the national teams are involved – to non-international league games and perhaps to […]
Croatian tower and DTT network operator Odasiljaci i veze (OiV) has activated the new M2 multiplex in the DVB-T2 system with the H.265/HEVC video coding standard. The first broadcasts are available from the Sljeme transmitter near Zagreb, using UHF channel K40. Simulcasts in DVB-T and DVB-T2 will continue until July 1st 2020, when the existing […]
The EBU has partnered with end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services specialist Eurofins Digital Testing to ensure that future high-quality broadcast content can be properly displayed and enjoyed on consumer TV sets. In an effort to give clarity to both broadcasters and consumers, the EBU has published a set of key distribution parameters (EBU […]
Satisfying the rapid demand growth for additional commercial spectrum presents challenges the Federal Communications Commission, according to public policy issue think tank Phoenix Center. While the Federal Communications Commission has conducted numerous spectrum auctions in recent years, it lacks a ready source for the much-needed spectrum in the low- and mid-bands. By far, the largest, […]
The negative impacts of high spectrum prices on consumers can no longer be disputed, according to a new report by trade body the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. The report, The Impact of Spectrum Prices on Consumers, confirms that countries with poor spectrum policies – which either inflate spectrum or delay […]
Media technology and services specialist MediaKind is launching the MediaKind Universe Alliance, describing it as an innovative technology partnership programme which gives content providers, service providers, and operators access to complete solutions that combine technologies and services from MediaKind with leading partners in Cloud and other offerings. According to the company, it enables critical industry […]
The US Government has returned equipment to Huawei which it seized two years ago. In return Huawei Technologies USA (HT USA) has dropped a lawsuit against the US Commerce Department and several other US government agencies that it filed back in June. Huawei said it views the decision to return the technology as a tacit […]