A unified approach to Internet-connected television will be another broadcasting game changer.
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HbbTV take-up could be higher in Italy than any other leading television market in Western Europe by 2015. According to Idate, the number of connected TV households among managed broadcast networks... Delete the scoop?
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German transmitter company Media Broadcast is now switching on its hybrid TV service Multithek in Munich, Bremen and North-Rhine-Westphalia. The HbbTV portal works on any compatible TV set with a D... Delete the scoop?
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ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, today announces that its NetFront™ Browser NX 2.0, one of the industry’s earliest HbbTV 1.5-compliant WebKit-based browsers, has been integrated with Fortis’ HbbTV ready set-top box and is available in German retail outlets. The NetFront solution will also be available for other European markets as they roll out HbbTV services. Delete the scoop?
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Swiss cable operator UPC cablecom will start distributing HbbTV signals on the network from January 2013. Subscribers will be able to use the additional digital functions offered by HbbTV (Hybrid B...
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Digital TV Labs, which provides independent, specialized receiver conformance products and services, said Nov. 15 that it is the first HbbTV test center officially registered by the HbbTV Consortium. Delete the scoop?
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At IBC 2012, httv, the France and Singapore based solutions provider for Digital TV, will showcase the first commercial deployment of its STB turnkey solution: “httvBOX”. Televes, a leading European STB manufacturer, has chosen httv’s httvBOX firmware solution to launch its HbbTV compliant set top box. Delete the scoop?
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French transmission company TDF and broadcaster France Télévisions have launched a new ‘restart’ service, called Salto, according to Broadband TV News. Delete the scoop?
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ALi Corporation, a leading set-top-box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solution provider, today announced that its hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) supported STB platform is ready for mass production. ALi and Opera Software will work together to bring a better HbbTV experience to ALi-based STBs. Delete the scoop?
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NorDig has released an update to its common API for interactive services that specifies HbbTV as the API for interactive services for advanced integrated receiver decoders (IRDs). Delete the scoop?
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The blending of traditional TV channels with Internet content is now possible for cable homes in Germany using the ‘KabelKiosk choice’ service based on the HbbTV standard developed by the German subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications. Delete the scoop?
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ANT plc (LSE AIM: ANTP), an established provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, today announced that Skyviia Corporation has licensed the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform and core TV applications. Skyviia will integrate ANT’s software into its new range of system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for the fast growing European HbbTV market. Delete the scoop?
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Members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are to be offered free white-label interactive applications to help them deploy Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (HbbTV) services this year. Delete the scoop?
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The blurring of TV and internet together with the emerging HbbTV services is providing a challenge for the futureproofing of TV headends and next-generation networks. WISI Communications will be de... Delete the scoop?
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Sofia Digital is an internationally recognized provider of interactive video and TV solutions. Delete the scoop?
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The Spanish electronic industry and TV broadcasters have agreed to use a common DRM system to protect HbbTV services and content, according to AEDETI – Spain’s interactive TV trade body incorporating interactive digital audiovisual media covering the entire value chain between between application developers and equipment manufacturers.
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The Polish public broadcaster TVP will release its latest and also what it says is its most comprehensive HbbTV app today (December 10). Dedicated specifically to the drama strand Teatr Telewizji, ...
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Turner can’t find a unified strategy and is seeing its traditional business model come under pressure due to different developments in connected TV and HbbTV in the markets it is present in. Delete the scoop?
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There is many a debate (especially on the TV Forums of LinkedIn) surrounding the Interactive TV Specification of HbbTV. Many people are already hailing its success due to the fact that it has been selected in a handful of countries with interest and deployment growing elsewhere. Even the DTG in the UK has added an HbbTV profile to its D-Book Spec. Delete the scoop?
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Technology trade body Intellect has released a specification that would enable the deployment of HbbTV over the UK terrestrial system and made a test stream available. Delete the scoop?
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Poland is the latest European country to warm to the hybrid HbbTV standard after its public broadcaster TVP launched an HbbTV app in time for the ongoing Euro 2012 football championships.
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A unified approach to Internet-connected television will be another broadcasting game changer.
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The HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium has announced the publication of version 1.5 of its hybrid TV specification. Delete the scoop?
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The biggest Danish national broadcaster DR is now launching a pilot project. A new service is developed in cooperation with the Danish company Nordija. It is now possible to watch pre-releases and broadcast from DR whenever the viewers want. Delete the scoop?
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Three white label applications will be provided free-of-charge to EBU members, who can customise them with their own content to provide interactive services including catch-up, VOD, interactive advertising, voting, gaming and social networking. Delete the scoop?
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