DVB-H Losing Support?

By Doug Lung
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The Web site www.connectedtv.eu carried an interesting article this week, DVB-H losing support in both the Europe and the US by Barry Flynn.

To substantiate his argument, Flynn points to the European Commission backing away from mandating DVB-H in Europe. He also mentioned the U.S. Mobile DTV Alliance announcement that ATSC, creator of the U.S. terrestrial DTV standard and a “long standing rival to the European DVB suite of video standards,” had just become a member of the alliance.

“Now that the ATSC has belatedly come up with a mobile version of its digital terrestrial standard, ATSC-M/H, DVB-H’s prospects in the USA look even bleaker, no doubt one of the reasons behind MDTVA’s decision to drop its allegiance to DVB-H,” Flynn concluded.

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Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.