HbbTV take-up could be higher in Italy than any other leading television market in Western Europe by 2015. According to Idate, the number of connected TV households among managed broadcast networks…
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Italy leads in HbbTV potential
Category Archives: HbbTV
WISI delivers HbbTV over IPTV
The blurring of TV and internet together with the emerging HbbTV services is providing a challenge for the futureproofing of TV headends and next-generation networks. WISI Communications will be de…
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Germany expands HbbTV over DTT coverage
German transmitter company Media Broadcast is now switching on its hybrid TV service Multithek in Munich, Bremen and North-Rhine-Westphalia. The HbbTV portal works on any compatible TV set with a D…
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Finnish HbbTV launch enables new services for TV channels
Sofia Digital is an internationally recognized provider of interactive video and TV solutions.
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Fortis to launch HTML5 and HbbTV Set-Top Box with ACCESS NetFront Browser
ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, today announces that its NetFront™ Browser NX 2.0, one of the industry’s earliest HbbTV 1.5-compliant WebKit-based browsers, has been integrated with Fortis’ HbbTV ready set-top box and is available in German retail outlets. The NetFront solution will also be available for other European markets as they roll out HbbTV services.
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Spain agrees DRM systems for HbbTV | Advanced Television
The Spanish electronic industry and TV broadcasters have agreed to use a common DRM system to protect HbbTV services and content, according to AEDETI – Spain’s interactive TV trade body incorporating interactive digital audiovisual media covering the entire value chain between between application developers and equipment manufacturers.
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UPC cablecom introduces HbbTV
Swiss cable operator UPC cablecom will start distributing HbbTV signals on the network from January 2013. Subscribers will be able to use the additional digital functions offered by HbbTV (Hybrid B…
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TVP continues HbbTV progress
The Polish public broadcaster TVP will release its latest and also what it says is its most comprehensive HbbTV app today (December 10). Dedicated specifically to the drama strand Teatr Telewizji, …
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HbbTV Consortium registers Digital TV Labs as test center
Digital TV Labs, which provides independent, specialized receiver conformance products and services, said Nov. 15 that it is the first HbbTV test center officially registered by the HbbTV Consortium.
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Turner assesses impact of HbbTV
Turner can’t find a unified strategy and is seeing its traditional business model come under pressure due to different developments in connected TV and HbbTV in the markets it is present in.
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