archives 2007
::November 2007 | #65
Last July, the EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, called for the adoption of the DVB-H standard for mobile television services in Europe. While mandating a single standard for the provision of mobile television services has been resisted, DVB-H services are slowly becoming the favoured system for mobile television.
::October 2007 | #64
HD on the terrestrial platform
HDTV services are available in many countries around the world. Australia, Japan and the United States lead in HDTV offering with services available across all television delivery platforms, from satellite to cable to terrestrial. In these countries, the move from an analogue to a digital terrestrial television environment coincided with the launch of HD services on the terrestrial platform (HD/DTT).
::September 2007 | #63
Analogue switch-off in Finland
On 1 September, Finland switched off its analogue terrestrial television network. This makes Finland the third country in Europe, after the Netherlands and Luxembourg, to complete the digital switchover of the terrestrial platform.
::August 2007 | #62
Uninterrupted Service - DVB-T2 - Facts and Fiction
In April the DVB Steering Board formally approved the publication of the Commercial Requirements for DVB-T2, as captured by the Commercial Module's Advanced Modulation for Terrestrial sub-group.
::April 2007 | #61
Analogue switch-off in Stockholm
On 26 March, Stockholm completed digital switchover with the switch-off of its last analogue channel SVT1. Two weeks earlier, the analogue switch-off process had begun when three channels on the analogue terrestrial platform, national services SVT2, TV4 and Finnish-language channel TV Finland, were switched-off.
::March 2007 | #60
System Software Updates on the terrestrial platform
The digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform is a great success in many parts of Europe. Already, an estimated 35 million DTT receivers had been sold by the end of 2006 and a dramatic increase in sales is expected in the next few years as further countries roll-out DTT services and increasingly prepare for analogue switch-off.
::February 2007 | #59
Late in the night of 31 January to 1 February, the French National Assembly approved a new bill. Entitled Télévision du Futur (television of the future), the bill provides the necessary legal framework to allow for the shut down of the existing analogue terrestrial platform and the launch of new broadcast services.
::January 2007 | #58
Sweden is at the forefront of digital switchover. In 1999, it became the second country in Europe to launch DTT services and is currently in the process of switching off its analogue terrestrial platform. Already, 23 main transmitters, out of a total of 54, have stopped their analogue television broadcasts.