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InterDigital awarded injunction against Disney

September 11, 2025 22.33 Europe/London By Robert Briel

InterDigital, a mobile, video and AI technology research and development company, has announced it has been awarded a preliminary injunction against Disney by a court in Brazil.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: AVC, Disney, HEVC, Interdigital Edited: 11 September 2025 22:33

HEVC emerges as first choice for developers and content creators

December 7, 2023 13.11 Europe/London By Julian Clover

A new report says there is evidence that adoption of the ten-year old HEVC standard is now expanding.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: Futuresource Consulting, HEVC, Interdigital Edited: 7 December 2023 13:11

HEVC first for Antik Telecom

January 17, 2022 15.48 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

Slovakia’s Antik Telecom will become the first operator in Central Europe to move from MPEG-4 to HEVC-encoded broadcasting technology.

Filed Under: Central & East Europe, DTH, IPTV, Newsline, Platforms, Standards, Tech Tagged With: Antik Telecom, HEVC, Slovakia Edited: 17 January 2022 15:48

SES picks Rohde & Schwarz for first 8K TV transmission

July 5, 2018 09.00 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

The new R&S PKU amplifier from German technology group Rohde & Schwarz was used for the uplink signal transmission during the first broadcast of an 8K TV signal by Astra […]

Filed Under: Distribution, HDTV, Newsline, Platforms, Satellite, Satellite, Tech, Testing Tagged With: 8K, Astra, DVB-S2X, HEVC, Rohde & Schwarz, SES, Thomas Wrede Edited: 5 July 2018 09:00

KPN announces DVB-T2 switchover timeline

June 26, 2018 07.52 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Dutch DTT licence holder KPN has outlined the timeline for the switchover of its Digitenne terrestrial pay TV platform to DVB-T2/HEVC.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Terrestrial Tagged With: Digitenne, DTT, DVB-T2, HEVC, KPN, The Netherlands, ZTE Edited: 27 June 2018 09:57

NPO opts for DVB-T2/HEVC for DTT

February 5, 2018 09.16 Europe/London By Robert Briel

The Dutch public broadcaster NPO will also change to DVB-T2/HEVC for its free-to-air DTT transmissions.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Terrestrial Tagged With: Digitenne, DTT, DVB-T2, HEVC, KPN, NPO, The Netherlands, ZTE Edited: 6 February 2018 11:34

German DVB-T2 rollout to enter third stage

January 29, 2018 21.45 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

In the night from April 24 to 25, 2018, the deployment of the new DTT standard DVB-T2/HEVC throughout Germany will enter the third stage.

Filed Under: Distribution, Editor's Choice, HDTV, Newsline, Platforms, Terrestrial, TV Tagged With: ARD, DVB-T2, Freenet TV, HEVC, ZDF Edited: 31 January 2018 11:46

EBU launches alternatives HEVC study

January 15, 2018 10.32 Europe/London By Julian Clover

The University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden is to perform an evaluation into the quality and practicality of competing video codecs on behalf of the EBU.

Filed Under: Newsline, Tech Tagged With: EBU, HEVC Edited: 15 January 2018 10:32

HEVC first for Telekom Austria

September 19, 2017 11.40 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

Telekom Austria has completed the upgrade of its white-label DTH platform to H.265 encoding for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Filed Under: Central & East Europe, Newsline Tagged With: Czech Republic, HEVC, Slovakia, Telekom Austria Edited: 20 September 2017 12:22

SES and Fraunhofer broadcast live 360° panorama video

September 14, 2017 09.55 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Astra satellite operator SES and German research institute Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI will jointly broadcast a 10K x 2K panorama video signal live via satellite for interactive presentation on […]

Filed Under: Distribution, IBC Special, Newsline, Research, Tech, Testing, Ultra HD Tagged With: Astra, Fraunhofer HHI, HEVC, OmniCam-360, Ralf Schäfer, SES, Thomas Wrede Edited: 14 September 2017 13:18

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