As we are based in mainland Europe, we’ll be closed December, 23rd until January, 6th. Enjoy your winter holidays, too, and a happy new year. See you again in 2014.

We’re excited to announce that we have joined the FOBTV Initiative. FOBTV spells out to “Future of Broadcast Television” and it is a non-profit organisation to help bring about a global, terrestrial broadcast standard.
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Wow, this seems to be a hefty failure. iCloud mail service is down for some users for over 10 hours. The outage also affects the Web interface.  (more…)

We are glad you (finally) made it here. After all the DNS hick-ups, cache mysteries, and other havock and mayhem – welcome back to the new Website! Same great stuff – all new package. We hope you like the sleeky-ish appearance and updated look&feel.  (more…)

Image (c) 2010 by user Steve_Rhodes on flickr

Next Monday and Tuesday (March 19th and 20th) in Berlin, the Information Technology Society (ITG) within the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) will hold its 6th experts conference on broadband services in Germany. And guess what? We will be presenting and we’re pretty excited about it!
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Photo (c) 2011 by Fraunhofer FOKUS

The photo shows Condition-ALPHA’s Alexander Adolf giving a pitch at the Fraunhofer FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2011 in Berlin. He is making a case for metadata to be inter-linked and machine-understandable to enable broadcast and broadband technology convergence.
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Most likely a niche problem still; but we needed it so we created it. A syntax chart for the DVB URI as specified in ETSI’s TS 102 851. (more…)

Photo © 2011 www.irt.de

This week we gave an invited talk at the German TV Platform’s workshop for mobile reception of DVB-T which was kindly (and wonderfully) organized by out local heroes of the IRT in Munich. (more…)

Today I finally found time to complete my article on DVB Generic Stream Encapsulation (DVB-GSE) on Wikipedia and move it from my sandbox to the public area.  (more…)

#dvbw11

We have created a list for folks attending the DVB World Conference:
http://twitter.com/#!/c_alpha/dvbw11