Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) is coming to Australia, and soon, and its being seen as a potential saviour for Australia’s struggling free-to-air TV industry. Just Google ‘HbbTV AND Australia’ and read the first few entries. Hybrid set to change TV - Sydney Morning Herald; Seven to start HbbTV by May - TV Tonight; HbbTV plan for Australia - Advanced Television; HbbTV coming your way soon, marrying Internet and broadcast - Financial Review.
Back in 2007 a handful of leading vendors along with major telcos AT&T and Telecom Italia joined forces to create the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) with the goal of defining and publishing open and free standards for end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services. OIPF has now grown to almost 50 members and the standards it has developed have come to underpin key components of the IPTV ecosystem.
This month CombiTel will be participating with its vendor partners in the International Broadcasting Convention, IBC 2013, to be held in Amsterdam. More than 50,000 broadcasting industry professionals from over 160 countries engaged in the content creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment will descend on Amsterdam for the event.
There are people who ‘worship’ technology and...there’s technology for worship! The former would have had a field day at the Integrate 2013 audiovisual technology show where they would have able to inspect a vast array of the latest in displays, projectors cameras including ‘technology for worship’.
Digital Signage appears to be taking over the world. Flat screen displays with advertising or informational messages are everywhere. But how often have you seen one that doesn’t look quite right?
Vitec, a worldwide leader in advanced digital video solutions, has announced the first professional video decoder card to support the new HEVC/H.265 video compression standard.
