Former DVB Commercial Module chair Martyn Lee has been made an Honorary Fellow of the DVB Project. Lee received the honour at the closing circle at DVB World 2024 in Munich last week. The award was created in 2006 and represents the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a participant in the work of…
The chair of the DVB, Peter MacAvock, has said his successor should be drawn from a generation of people that weren’t around at the time of the formation of the organisation for digital TV specifications. “It should be someone who will seek to wipe away the cobwebs and build an organization that’s dynamic and diverse.…
The winner of the IBC 2023 special award for innovation is the German DVB-I pilot, an initiative bringing together multiple stakeholders from the German media industry, including broadcasters, device manufacturers, software providers and research institutions. Published as an open standard by ETSI, the specification service discovery and programme metadata for DVB-I provides an internet-centric mechanism…