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UK digital switchover exec chosen to lead Digital Australia (8-Sep-2008)
Andrew Townend - who since 2005 has been the chief operating officer of Digital UK, the body coordinating the switchover to digital television in the United Kingdom - has been appointed as the executive director of Digital Australia. reportSamsung launches multi-standard mobile chipset (8-Sep-2008)
Samsung has introduced a multi-standard channel decoder and multi-band radio frequency tuner chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB for the multiple standards in the different countries around the world. report Euro stramash over DVB-H backing (8-Sep-2008)
The European Commission has announced its backing of Nokia’s DVB-H mobile broadcast TV standard. Independent market analyst Datamonitor considers that the development will notably aide in the mass-adoption of mobile broadcast TV services as a whole but that it might come at the price of reducing open market competition. Those competitors are, naturally, up in arms at the decision report Getting Personal (8-Sep-2008)
Graham has had a long career in the digital television space, having been one of the early pioneers of MPEG-2 compression over a decade ago. Today, as Executive Vice President of Tandberg Television Asia-Pacific, Graham and his family - wife Julia and two boys - are based in Hong Kong. Graham is responsible for all commercial operations for Tandberg Television in the region; including China, Northeast and Southeast Asia, and Australia. He is also part of Tandberg Television’s global executive management team, responsible for developing the company’s offering of advanced compression systems, on-demand solutions and interactive television technologies report Australia’s Digital Fault-Line: Delivering the Digital Future (8-Sep-2008)
Making Australia a digital TV nation is one of the big electoral challenges facing the Howard government and communications minister Helen Coonan. It will be low on the radar at this year’s Federal election, but will be such an issue three years later that it has the potential to win or lose the election for the incumbent. By Ross Honeywill report Ads in on-demand: The killer app? (8-Sep-2008)
VOD (video on demand) advertising is being tested, but some say the technology needs to be better. Stewart Schley reports from the US, where VOD is already a mass market technology report EC paves the way for new TV Directive (8-Sep-2008)
The European Commission has unveiled a consolidated text of the modernised "Television without Frontiers" Directive. After a first reading in the European Parliament and the Council, there is now broad agreement with the Commission about the future legal framework for Europe's audiovisual sector. report HDTV triggers resurgence of TV relics (8-Sep-2008)
An ironic twist to the growth in popularity of high tech High Definition TV in the US is the resurgence of accessories long considered to be relics of the pre-satellite and cable days – bunny ears and antennas. report ********* OVERSET *********Grass Valley targets tight budgets (8-Sep-2008)
Responding to two big needs facing broadcasters, hardware vendor Grass Valley declared strong sales of high-end HD cameras and switchers at its pre-NAB press briefing. It also pitched automation software that can cut news production staffs in half. ********* OVERSET *********Glen Dickson reports report New Teac STBs for HD broadband-media digital recording (8-Sep-2008)
Teac’s new HDRM7250 set-top box is a broadband-enabled product capitalises on the growing trend for digital television and home media systems. report |
