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A Word From DVB
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Dear Reader,
I would like to welcome you to our new electronic newsletter. The Enews will complement our well known DVB Scene Magazine and will provide you with up to date information about what's going on in the world of digital broadcast. I hope that you enjoy this newsletter and also recommend it to your friends and colleagues.
Peter Siebert
Executive Director
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DVB at India's BES Expo | |
The Broadcast Engineering Society of India's (BES) annual International Conference and Exhibition on terrestrial and satellite broadcasting took place from February 24th to 26th 2011 in New Delhi, India. The theme of this year's conference and exhibition was 'Broadcast Technology - Emerging Trends'.
One emerging trend is the very strong global interest for DVB's second generation terrestrial standard, DVB-T2. India has recently announced plans for a tender for DVB-T2 networks in most major cities across the country, making this potentially the world's largest DVB-T2 community. With this positive decision and direction, the DVB Project was present at BES Expo to support the Indian broadcast industry with this choice. Read full story... |
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DVB World 2011 Diary
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 Each year the digital broadcasting community meets at the DVB World Conference. This year's DVB World brought together some 200 participants from around the world in spring-like Nice in order to learn firsthand about the latest developments by DVB, exchange ideas and thoughts, and meet with familiar colleagues once again. DVB's Executive Director Peter Siebert gives a front row account of the event. Read full story... |
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DVB-T2 at the ABU in Kuala Lumpur
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In a pre-conference event at this year's Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's Digital
Broadcasting Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, the DVB co-hosted an important 4-day DVB-T2 field trial to showcase the technology and its superior capabilities. Also scheduled to coincide with the field trial was a DVB-T2 transmission workshop that presented implementation and operational aspects of the second-generation digital terrestrial transmission system.
The trial was extremely successful and gave immeasurable exposure to DVB-T2 and this interest flowed on to the Symposium. The trial was attended by nearly 100 participants representing most countries in the region, including Turkey. The DVB-T2 transmission workshop was held over two days. John Bigeni, DVB's Asia representative, gave three presentations including lengthy analyses of DVB-T technology as a foundation to the second generation DVB-T2 technologies. Other speakers included representatives from Teamcast, Rohde & Schwarz and Media Broadcast. An accompanying DVB-T2 demonstration showed 4 HD services, courtesy of the BBC, being received off-air from the KL Tower.
A full report on the Symposium and the trials will appear in the next issue of DVB Scene Enews.
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Over One Million DVB-T2 Receivers Sold
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The sales of Freeview HD (DVB-T2) devices in the UK has passed the one million milestone and now stands at 1.2 million devices. This includes regular set-top boxes, PVR set-top boxes and integrated TV tuners (iDTV). Today, there are more than 150 models of Freeview HD boxes and TVs available to buy starting from 55 GBP.
Source: Freeview
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DVB-RCS2 Approved
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DVB approved the first two DVB-RCS2 specifications for the 2nd generation DVB  interactive satellite system. DVB-RCS2 takes advantage of state-of-the-art technology that gives substantial enhancements over 1st generation systems. DVB-RCS2 is natively developed for IP services and is specified for interactive satellite services in several market segments. The specifications 'Second Generation DVB Interactive Satellite Services' will be submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation.
The first two documents are available on the DVB website as BlueBooks A155 Part 1 and A155 Part 2.
Full press release
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DVB-3DTV Specification Published
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 On February 17 the DVB Steering Board approved the DVB-3DTV specification, which has just been published as BlueBook A154 'Frame Compatible Plano-Stereoscopic 3DTV', (DVB-3DTV). The specification has been sent to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. Read full story...
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3DTV Webinar
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The EBU Technical will host a 3DTV Webinar on April 14th with David Wood, live from the NAB Convention in Las Vegas, and Yvonne Thomas, live from the EBU Headquarters in Geneva.
The webinar will bring you up to date on the progress in the DVB Project on 3D TV formats. The Phase 1 3D TV specification is now with ETSI for standardisation (see above), and the requirements for a possible Phase 2 are being discussed.
Yvonne Thomas is managing EBU studies in 3D TV production and on future generations of 3D TV systems, and will give a glimpse of the status of this work. David Wood will bring you the latest news on 3D TV at NAB this year.
The webinar will give you the news almost as it happens, and it will be open for your questions and comments on a chat line.
14 April 2011, 7:00 (PDT) and 16:00 (CEST)
You can register and join the 3DTV Webinar from the EBU Technical website.
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Latest Version of GEM Supports OTT & Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband Services
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At the 67th Meeting of the Steering Board, the DVB approved the latest version of its specification for interactivity - Globally Executable MHP (GEM). This new version of GEM v1.3 prepared by the ad-hoc group TM-MUG, chaired by Michael Lagally (Oracle), now provides support for Over-The-Top (OTT) television and Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband (HBB).
This new version of the Java based GEM specification defines an OTT device category (target), which addresses media distribution over broadband networks without guaranteed bandwidth such as the internet. The OTT target complements the existing GEM targets for Broadcast, Packaged Media and IPTV.
Full press release
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DVB Welcomes New Members | |
The Universidad del Pais Vasco - a public research and teaching institution formed by several faculties and colleges.
Shenzhen National Engineering Laboratory of Digital Television Co. Ltd. - a leading center in China for the promotion of digital TV standards, product testing and technology development.
EuroTel S.p.A .- designs, manufactures and sells radio and television transmitters. |
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