The Slovak commercial station TV Joj could start HDTV transmissions within a year, according to its technical director Dezider Fischer. Fischer was speaking to the local press, which has already […]
ARD to showcase HD during IFA
German public broadcaster ARD will showcase HD during this year’s consumer electronics show IFA in Berlin. With a special HD version of its Eins Festival channel the broadcaster will show […]
Four candidates for French DTT-HD
The CSA has said that four broadcasters have submitted applications for the launch of an HD service on the terrestrial transmitter network. Three channels are planned to be free-to-air, from […]
HD boost for Czech Republic
The Czech triple play company Mattes AD has announced plans to start offering HD services from this autumn. According to local reports, they will initially be confined to the film […]
HBO to deliver 26 HD Channels using Motorola technology
Motorola today announced it will implement a 26-channel, high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC encoding system for Home Box Office (HBO). Offered by Motorola’s Home and Networks Mobility Business, the system compresses, […]
IFA press: big screens and IPTV major trends
Full HD, larger TV screens and IPTV are the three major consumer electronics trends at this year’s IFA, according to German journalists from the trade, economic and general press. During […]
Pace wins Sky digibox supply contract
Pace Micro Technology has confirmed that it has secured additional business with BSkyB for the supply of the standard Sky digibox. The business, for the financial year 2007, follows last […]
Multimedia digital service blossoms
The Polish MSO Multimedia Polska has announced that the digital cable TV service it launched 10 weeks ago now has 5,000 subscribers. The first in the country to offer both […]
Levira signs HD channel play-out service deal
The Estonian transmission company Levira has reached an agreement with NonStop Television to provide a play-out service for the new film channel Silver HD. The channel, due to make its […]
Casema to use OpenTV in HD deployment
OpenTV has confirmed its technologies will be used in Casema’s new high definition television services. The Dutch cablenet plans to deploy HD digital video recorders with OpenTV Core2 middleware, OpenTV […]