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DVB to consider energy efficiency

A DVB study mission on energy-aware service delivery and consumption has delivered its final report, published as DVB BlueBook S100. Its central recommendation is to create a dedicated working group that will help to ensure energy efficiency is taken into account in the future development of DVB specifications. The study mission on Energy-Aware service Delivery and […]

November 20, 2023

United Cloud partnership with Sentinel Holding

United Cloud, the innovation centre of the United Group, which develops products and services for the telecommunications and media sectors, and Sentinel Holding, a specialist in open-standards open-source software, have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement and a Master Software Development Agreement. The partners’ shared roadmap will support United Cloud’s development of innovations in open-source, open-standards […]

October 9, 2023

Hattori named SMPTE Standards VP

SMPTE, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has announced that SMPTE Fellow Sally Hattori has accepted the position of SMPTE standards vice president, a role in which she is directing and supervising the standards projects of the Society. She previously served as SMPTE standards director and is serving the balance of the two-year […]

May 9, 2023

Infuse Video joins the SVTA

Infuse Video has joined the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at scale. “We are excited to be joining the SVTA, a group of companies shaping the future of video. We are looking forward to gaining from the Alliance’s […]

February 3, 2023

LG joins Connectivity Standards Alliance board

LG Electronics has been named to the Board of Directors of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the global organisation focused on developing, evolving and promoting universal open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). The newly appointed Board of Directors members are Don Williams of LG’s Chief Strategy Office and Dr Sang Kim of LG’s Chief […]

July 19, 2022

Maxon joins Metaverse Standards Forum

Maxon has announced that it is one of the founding members of the Metaverse Standards Forum, a newly established governing body that aims to foster alignment on requirements and priorities for metaverse interoperability standards. Along with Adobe, Epic Games, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA, amongst others, Maxon aims to help build an open and inclusive metaverse […]

July 12, 2022

Industry majors form Metaverse Standards Forum

The Metaverse Standards Forum brings together leading standards organisations and companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. The Forum will explore where the lack of interoperability is holding back metaverse deployment and how the work of Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) defining and evolving needed standards may be coordinated and […]

June 23, 2022

HbbTV releases v2022-1 of Conformance Test Suite

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services, has announced the release of a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite.The new version, v2022-1, is the first major release of the Test Suite in 2022. The release contains 3,002 test cases in total, […]

April 6, 2022

Companies form entertainment globalisation body

Ten founding companies and 50 forming companies have announced their collaboration to create the entertainment industry’s first association focused specifically on entertainment globalisation. Globalisation is defined as Dubbing, Subtitling, and Audio Description services which allow content to be consumed in languages other than the original version. The founding companies of the association are Audiomaster Candiani, […]

November 18, 2020