This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from September 2018. The full report can be viewed here DVB-T2 is the next-generation terrestrial transmission standard, offering 50% more efficiency compared to other DTT systems and supporting SD, HD, UHD, mobile TV, radio, or any combination thereof. HD services consume more bandwidth than traditional services due to higher image and sound definition. The transition to DVB-T2 allows an increase in the capacity of DTT platforms. The transition from DVB-T to DVB-T2 has already been completed in some European countries such as the UK, Italy, Finland and Sweden with other countries planning the switchover over the next few years. [caption id="attachment_62592" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Source: Dataxis[/caption] At the end of 2017, Dataxis published a survey according to which, by 2022, 72% of European households will receive DTT using the DVB-T2 standard. In 2017, 12 countries were still using two standards in parallel. According to Dataxis, by 2022, 8 countries could still be in this situation. The decision to roll out DVB-T2 depends on broadcasters’ plans in some countries. For example in Belgium, the Flemish-speaking public broadcaster VRT has decided to terminate the DVB-T broadcast of its three main channels in December 2018...
Transition to Digital & HD Broadcasting
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from September 2018. The full report can be viewed here In most European countries, the transition to digital broadcasting has been completed. Some Eastern European countries are still in the process of transitioning; tender postponement and rescheduling announcements have been recorded in the first half of 2018. Ukraine had originally planned to begin its transition to digital broadcasting at the end of 2017 and complete it in 2018; the National Council announced in March 2018 that it had put the completion back to April-May 2019, but it will follow the initial 3-stage switch-off plan; the first phase will take place “in a specific area in August 2018, the second one throughout the country (except from the Ukraine’s First Channel, some local broadcasters and analogue channels in the territory under the control of Russian military forces and pro-Russian separatists and some border areas in January 2019), the third 3-4 months later.” Local DTT multiplexes will appear after the completion of the transition. In May 2018, Greece granted temporary nationwide DTT licences to Alpha, Ant1, Epsilon TV, Star and Skai. During 2017 and 2018, few digital terrestrial deployments have taken place in Europe....
Media Technology Demand Drivers – APAC Region
The transition to digital broadcasting is alarmingly low with only five countries – Australia, Japan, Korea Rep., Mongolia and New Zealand – having completed the transition. Chart 15 above shows the status of the transition to DTT in the region. It is anticipated that by the year 2020, a number of other countries in the region will have completed the transition to digital broadcasting, including Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Successful interoperability test session with Rohde & Schwarz and TeamCast
TeamCast, the world-renowned leader in digital modulation technologies for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Wireless Transmission and Satellite Applications, and Rohde & Schwarz, a leader of broadcasting test and measurement solutions, have successfully completed a DVB-CID interoperability test session between the DVB-CID generator embedded in the R&S BTC Broadcast Test Center and the TeamCast DVB-CID Receiver. Munich, December 19, 2016 – As for every new standard introduced on the market, different interpretations of the mathematical specification can be made. As no interoperability test session was organised so far by the DVB group, the two companies decided to run such tests on their own. "So far, we made several interoperability test sessions with different modulator manufacturers and different satellite monitoring equipment providers with a full success. However as the R&S BTC is one of the first reference test tool on the market, it was important for us to organize this test session. Now we can claim that TeamCast's satellite transmission products (the VYPER Modulator and the DVB-CID Receiver Demodulator) are fully compliant with the ETSI 103 129 DVB-CID standard", says Philippe Hostiou, Satellite Product Line Manager at TeamCast. As a leading supplier of broadcast T&M solutions, Rohde & Schwarz attaches great importance...
