Philip Hunter

The newly restructured Satellite IRG will be working with key satellite operators and equipment manufacturers to tackle the growing problem of interference.

Despite the failure of DVB-H to gain traction, many European operators are still betting on it playing a major role in future services, but with a different standard.

The forensic watermarking system enables the Polish national film archive to trace content.

A new Rethink report predicts that rest of Europe will follow France into a more competitive pay-TV market.

Isareli company Novelsat is lobbying the DVB to create DVB-S3 by incorporating its satellite transmission technology.

The Ericsson TV & Video Consumer Trend Report 2011 finds people are spending less time watching scheduled broadcast TV but are willing to pay for fresh content.

The Home Gateway Initiative is using its Chicago meeting this week to focus on reducing power consumption while ensuring quality of service within the connected home.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) is urging its member countries to create a single market for digital broadcasting and cinema.

The BBC wants to make high-quality Olympic content widely available on catch up via its iPlayer.

Leading broadcasting consultant urges regulators to revise DTT spectrum planning to provide better in-home coverage in urban areas.

France, like Germany and most other European countries except the UK, is basing its connected TV platform strategy on the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) held a quality control workshop in June, concluding that there is a long way to go to develop the automated monitoring toolsets needed for multiscreen services.

The Broadcasting Audience Research Board (BARB), which measures TV consumption in the UK, is introducing a viewing meter for Web-based services.

The rush to Internet-delivered multiscreen services is driving innovation and boom in tools for boosting network performance.

BSkyB could end up totally independent from News Corporation, which currently holds 39 percent of its shares.

The EU has come out openly against SOPA and PIPA while still legislating itself to combat online piracy.

The EBU has published a new specification for subtitling, based on the XML for file-based HGD content, to replace the existing EBU STL format.

Polish public service broadcasting in disarray over DTT as well as funding.

IPTV is only about half the pay TV story for the world’s Telcos, with cable and now OTT providing additional outlets.

The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has exonerated cable operator Virgin Media from responsibility for content of programs provided by external broadcasters or other providers.

The launch by Sky in the UK of an online TV service for non-existing customers heralds a new era of competition for OT T services in Europe following the arrival of Netflix.

The UK business lobbying group, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), has called on the BBC and government to help the country’s TV and media sectors expand internationally.