Latest articles by Philip Hunter
An app revolution riding on smart TVs will be a major talking point at this year’s IPTV World Forum in London, March 22-24.
Bell Laboratories and others are proving that although fiber needs to be pushed deeper, new technologies will deliver multichannel HD IPTV services over copper for the last few hundred meters.
The Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group standard spearheaded by UK groups continues to gain ground in Asia.
Satellite operators will exploit their blanket coverage to make up for lost revenue to IPTV and fiber networks in densely populated areas of North America, the Far East and Western Europe.
The HomeGrid Forum claims to have made a breakthrough in data and video transmission.
European cable will stay in rude health, providing it takes the right IP medicine, according to the Cable Congress consensus.
UK communications regulator Ofcom will enforce EU guidelines for UK product placement starting March 1.
The success of cable operators to boost peak bandwidth per user to 100Mb/s and greater has stimulated fiber investment by telcos in some European countries.
The EBU has built on its audio-over-IP standard to define interoperability requirements for intercom over IP.
The UK government is considering closing a loophole that lets people evade the licence fee by watching only in catch-up mode.
The European Broadcast Union (EBU) has just published a study highlighting growing use of social media by public service broadcasters (PSBs) to halt a decline in news viewing by people under 45.
The European Broadcast Union (EBU) recently aired its views on network neutrality, copyright, and other issues with European Commission president José Manuel Barroso.
Microwave technology vendor Bluwan is lobbying European regulators and operators to look at virgin 40 GHz spectrum to meet exploding demand for mobile backhaul fuelled by video.
The UK’s leading pay TV operator BSkyB has been forced by regulatory pressure to let arch rival Virgin Media distribute its movie catalogue.
European standards for connected TV are still fragmented, but outside the UK at least public broadcasters are rallying around HbbTV for hybrid services.
The French government has postponed plans to adopt the second generation DVB-T2 digital terrestrial technology until at least 2015 but other European countries are moving ahead now.
The French regulator CSA has put forward four key proposals for connected TV.
UK cable operator Virgin Media plans to bid for spectrum in 2012, so that it can set up femtocells for in-home distribution.
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s Ultraviolet digital locker is being launched in the UK this month but is meeting resistance from European pay TV operators.
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards argues that there should be a radical single frequency network re-plan of Digital Terrestrial Television across Europe.
