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HbbTV Association integrates DRM support into standard

March 2, 2026 11.33 Europe/London By Julian Clover

The HbbTV Association has published version 2.0.5 of its core specification, formally integrating DRM support into the HbbTV standard for the first time.

Filed Under: Newsline, Standards, Tech Tagged With: HbbTV Association Edited: 2 March 2026 13:22

HbbTV accelerates worldwide growth at Istanbul Symposium

November 25, 2025 14.42 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The 13th HbbTV Symposium and Awards in Istanbul has underscored the accelerating international expansion of the HbbTV standard, with strong growth across Europe, Turkey and the wider MENA region.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline, TV Tagged With: HbbTV Association, HbbTV Awards 2025, HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2025, Merve Eraslano?lu, TVEkstra, Vincent Grivet Edited: 25 November 2025 14:42

HbbTV Symposium 2025 unveils programme and speakers in Istanbul

October 16, 2025 23.04 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The HbbTV Association has unveiled the programme and speaker line-up for the 13th HbbTV Symposium and Awards, set to take place on 12-13 November 2025 in Istanbul.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline Tagged With: HbbTV Association Edited: 16 October 2025 23:05

Record turnout at 16th Plugfest and HbbTV Testing Event in Berlin

October 10, 2025 18.01 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The 16th Plugfest and HbbTV Testing Event concluded today at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin after five days of intensive interoperability testing.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline, Tech, Testing Tagged With: Deutsche TV-Plattform, DTG, DVB-I, Frank Heineberg, Fraunhofer FOKUS, HbbTV Association, HbbTV Testing Event, HDMI, plugfest, Stefan Kunz Edited: 10 October 2025 18:10

HbbTV Association joins ETSI as a member

May 5, 2025 09.35 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The HbbTV Association has been admitted as a full member at ETSI, one of the three official organisations in the European standardisation system.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline Tagged With: ETSI, HbbTV Association Edited: 5 May 2025 09:46

HbbTV and Service List Registry enable online discovery of HbbTV applications

November 14, 2024 00.01 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The HbbTV Association has appointed the Service List Registry (SLR) to run the registry platform enabling HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline Tagged With: HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband, HbbTV Association, Service List Registry, Vincent Grivet, William Cooper Edited: 14 November 2024 00:11

DVB World 2024: Verance shows HbbTV ADB2 with German broadcasters

March 19, 2024 09.21 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

US technology company Verance is demonstrating the integration of its Verance Aspect watermarking solution into the HbbTV ecosystem at DVB World 2024 (19-20 March) in Munich, Germany.

Filed Under: DVB World, HbbTV, Newsline, Set-Top Boxes, Standards, Tech Tagged With: ADB2, ARD, DVB-TA, HbbTV Association, HbbTV TA, HDMI, Nil Shah, RTL Deutschland, Verance, Verance Aspect, Vincent Grivet, ZDF Edited: 19 March 2024 12:48

Addressable TV Initiative signs up TP Vision and Vestel

March 18, 2024 09.43 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The Addressable TV Initiative (ATVI) has entered into partnership agreements with TV set manufacturers TP Vision (Philips) and Vestel.

Filed Under: HbbTV, Newsline, Standards, Tech Tagged With: addressable TV, Addressable TV Initiative, Andre Prahl, Antic Ogut, ATVI, Elie Bonte, HbbTV Association, HbbTV TA, Nicole Agudo Berbel, Philips, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Deutschland, Seraphic, TP Vision, Vestel, Xinwen Xue Edited: 19 March 2024 13:26

HbbTV Symposium 2023 to focus on targeted advertising, DVB-I and innovation

October 23, 2023 11.43 Europe/London By Julian Clover

The HbbTV Association has given details on next month’s conference in Naples (November 28-29), co-hosted with Italian digital TV association Comunicare Digitale.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: HbbTV Association Edited: 23 October 2023 11:45

HbbTV updates Test Suite and DASH DRM

April 24, 2023 09.00 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

The HbbTV Association has released of updated versions of the HbbTV Test Suite and the DASH DRM Reference Application.

Filed Under: Newsline, Standards, Tech, Testing Tagged With: HbbTV Association Edited: 24 April 2023 09:46

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