The European DVB (digital video broadcasting) Project's set-top box, Multimedia Home Platform (MHP), with an open architecture for TV, PC, telephony and Internet access, was finalized in mid-1998. In the UK, the ITC (Independent Television...
DVB-MHP is being designed to connect broadcast television, telecoms and Internet computing in devices like set-top boxes, PCs and digital television receivers. Sun Microsystems said the adoption of its technology is another step towards the...
The ZL10310 and ZL10311 chips are designed for use with the terrestrial digital video broadcast (DVB-T) standard created by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which is used by the Freeview service in the UK.
Trials are to take place in Oxford using some 500 local guinea pigs (metaphorically speaking) and the DVB-H standard for digital television. Research out this week from Portelligent says 3G UMTS handsets are becoming less circuitry intensive, so...
The main stumbling block for DVB-H, the superior broadcast technology, is that it requires a new tranche of spectrum to be allocated to it, and Ofcom has so far not recognised the need, or urgency, for doing so.
However, BT has already indicated it has not ruled out the possibility of swapping out its equipment to offer TV over rival standards DVB-H. DVB-H (digital video broadcasting) is being championed by the likes of Nokia and O2 but some industry...