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13 Jul 2023

DVB-I shows promise for future television distribution in Germany

Germany’s DVB-I pilot is to enter a second phase, according to Christian Klöckner, Technology & Innovation Engineer at WDR, Cologne. As previously reported in Broadband TV News, the Pilot group published its conclusions at the end of May. In an article for EBU tech-i magazine, Klöckner said the earlier trial had identified a need for an organisation that would validate broadcaster lists according to the DVB-I standard and to provide regional updates. In Germany this could be achieved through the public value lists provided by the German Media Authorities, but that was also a need to classify offers not included in the public value list. Support for the classification of packages needing digital rights management (DRM) is now being addressed [...]

15 May 2023

DVB-I first in Spain

The first DVB-I tests have been taking place in Spain thanks to the latest example of a long-running collaboration between the public broadcaster RTVE and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Under the auspices of the RTVE Chair at UPM, a live event at the end of April featured the first pilot of RTVE channels delivered using DVB-I linked to a digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcast. The event included a demonstration of the channel tuning procedure. Other companies contributing to the initiative included Cellnex Telecom, Dolby, Sapec and the Televés Corporation, all of whom are on the advisory committee of the RTVE Chair at UPM. Receivers for the tests were supplied by Vestel, who provided development software with new DVB-I [...]