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The Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) standard is 20 years old. The DVB Project, the organisation that has overseen its development and its progress over the past two decades has been taking stock.
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Telstra has complete proof of concept trials of ultra HD/4K transmission on the Telstra Digital Video Network (DVN2) in preparation for live trials in October.
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Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) is coming to Australia, and soon, and its being seen as a potential saviour for Australia’s struggling free-to-air TV industry. Just Google ‘HbbTV AND Australia’ and read the first few entries. Hybrid set to change TV - Sydney Morning Herald; Seven to start HbbTV by May - TV Tonight; HbbTV plan for Australia - Advanced Television; HbbTV coming your way soon, marrying Internet and broadcast - Financial Review.
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Back in 2007 a handful of leading vendors along with major telcos AT&T and Telecom Italia joined forces to create the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) with the goal of defining and publishing open and free standards for end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services. OIPF has now grown to almost 50 members and the standards it has developed have come to underpin key components of the IPTV ecosystem.
