While HD in North America has been touted as a key component of the DTV transition for consumers for several years (with mixed results), such was not the case in Western Europe. Until recently, most ...

If you were in this business in the late 1980s, you may recall the chorus calls for an international standard for digital television. The phrase “worldwide DTV” became synonymously linked with the ...

Blu-ray may have the upper hand in the North American high-definition market, but HD DVD appears to be the format of choice in Europe. European movie studios are favoring HD DVD over Blu-ray due to ...

You may assume that because we have a relatively high amount of HDTV content here in the US that the same is true for all other Western countries. This is not only far from true, it's... well, yeah it ...

The European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association has announced a standard for HD Ready labelling of TVs, plasma screens and other HD displays. "The “HD ready" label is fully ...

As the television and cinema industries accelerate their progression towards Ultra HD (4K), Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced it is launching a dedicated demonstration ...

Toshiba has announced launch dates and prices for the first stand-alone HD DVD players to reach Europe -- the HD-E1 and HD-XE1. This follows the US launch of the HD-A1 and HD-XA1 players back in April ...

Almost two months ago, Netflix said it would reduce video bit rates for 30 days in Europe, aiming to reduce bandwidth consumed by customers by 25% during the COVID-19 crisis. It has now been 55 days ...

SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced that BBC Global News Ltd has signed a long-term agreement to broadcast its international news channel free-to-air in ...