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Germany Approves HbbTV Removal

by Tom Allen

German media authorities have decided that platform operators in the country do not have to distribute TV channels’ HbbTV services. The decision was made following ARD’s complaints that Kabel Deutschland was filtering out its …

Tags:Germany| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

DTG Forms MHEG Transition Group

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group has formed an MHEG transition group. The new group will consider the challenges of introducing HbbTV 2.0-based interactive services to the UK’s DTT platform. They will also identify the …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Freeview Simplifies the Connected Experience

by Tom Allen

Freeview is the UK’s free DTT platform. For several years Ilse Howing – MD of connected TV at Digital UK, which looks after Freeview – has wanted to talk about a connected proposition for …

HbbTV Changing to Match Multiscreen

by Bob Raikes

The final session of the first day covered service and platform initiatives and the first speaker was Laurent Etienne, the CTT of HTTV, a French middleware company. He has been involved in the standards …

HbbTV is Big in Germany

by Tom Allen

GfK says that HbbTV has firmly established itself in Germany; 92% of connected TVs sold last year – 4.2 million devices – were compliant with the platform. 60% of all TVs sold (4.8 million …

Tags:Germany| GfK| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11

TV-Ring Presents Findings in Germany

by Tom Allen

Results of the European HbbTV project, TV-Ring, will be presented at the IRT Colloquium on 16th March. TV-Ring investigates what the platform could be used for in the future, such as UltraHD streaming, or …

Tags:Europe| Germany| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Kirk Edwardson Speaks About HbbTV 2.0

by Tom Allen

The HbbTV Association finalised and released the HbbTV 2.0 specification last month (UltraHD and Continuity Arrive With HbbTV 2.0). The new document outlined various additions to HbbTV, such as support for the HEVC codec …

UltraHD and Continuity Arrive With HbbTV 2.0

by Tom Allen

HbbTV 2.0 has been released by the HbbTV Association. New services are expected to be introduced beginning in 2016. The 2.0 specification adds support for standardised UltraHD content delivery, using HEVC; HTML5 user experiences; …

HbbTV 2.0 Specification Released

by Helen Vince

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, today announced the release of the new HbbTV …

Tags:HbbTV| Standards

20th HbbTV Workshop Takes Place in December

by Raverstead

The 20th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop will take place in Munich, Germany, on 9th and 10th December. All HbbTV application developers and manufacturers of HbbTV products are invited to attend. More details can be found …

DTVL Deploys HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite

by Raverstead

Digital TV Labs in the UK has announced an HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite – which it claims is the world’s first. The Suite will be developed to support Digital UK’s next-generation Freeview service. Manufacturers …

Tags:Europe| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 48

EE TV Now Live

by Raverstead

The EE TV service (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 40) is now live in the UK. The set-top box costs £250 ($400), but is free to new and existing mobile customers if they subscribe …