Where is DVB? Services using DVB standards are available on every continent with nearly 900 million DVB receivers deployed. The DVB Worldwide section offers country-by-country news stories and an overview of where DVB technology has been deployed.

DVB News

DVB Scene eNews (April 25th)

The new DVB Scene eNews is now available online. Click here to read it or subscribe to DVB Scene.

DVB-T2 launching in Austria next month (March 22nd)

Austria's ORS, the transmitter company owned by public broadcaster ORF, will start operating a new DVB-T2 pay-TV service called SimpliTV next month. The new pay-TV serice will be available on subscription only alongside the current free-to-air DVB-T offer from ORF. Compatible DVB-T2 receivers and Irdeto CI+ modules will be availble in the shops from mid-April, and more details will be announced at an ORS press conference around the same time.

New DVB Carrier ID Specification Approved (February 28th)

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), caused by operational errors at the uplink, has a major impact in the Quality of Service for satellite operators and their customers. However, these days may be numbered now that the DVB Steering Board has approved the new specification for Carrier ID. The specification was ratified at the 73rd Meeting of the DVB Steering Board and will now be submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardization. Download the specification here.

New DVB Scene: Issue 41 (February 27th)

DVB SCENE Issue 41 (March 2013) has just been released. This "Looking at the Bigger Picture" issue includes articles on: DVB-T2, ENGINES, DigiTAG, the True Cost of OTT, companion screens, the big picture for DVB: 3DTV, UHDTV and HEVC, DVB-T2 in Asia, switchover in Nigeria, DVB-T2 workshop in New Delhi, TV Festival Vietnam, FoBTV, DVB website news, and MPEG4 on the Internet. You can view, download or subscribe to DVB Scene here.

DVB-T2 Trial in the USA (February 22nd)

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given the green light for the first-ever DVB-T2 trial in the USA. A license for a 6-month trial was granted to Baltimore-based WNUV-TV. The trial aims to provide a test bed for a more efficient OFDM based delivery standard, such as DVB-T2, and will have an impact on how digital terrestrial TV will be delivered using current and future standards in the US and beyond.