In Norway we have for a long time had an ongoing debate about digital radio, and then DAB. It is hard to see that DAB will succeed, sales figures says it all. Last year there were sold about 60. 000 DAB radios and 725.000 FM radios in Norway. I don’t doubt the numbers being correct, just imagine all the mobile phones that today are equipted with a FM radio! Recently I also read that also Germany is haivng doubt about building out their DAB network. I was an early adopter to DAB, I […] Continue reading →
It’s about 10 days left to RiksTV is to officially launch (Sept. 1 2007), and the world’s three first MPEG-4 decoders are appearing on the Internet: Grundig DTR8720 Grundig DTR8740 with MHP and MemoryStick Sagem ITD81-HD As you can see, the more expensive decoder from Grundig is the one to buy, as it is the only one with support for the Text-TV standard MHP and with MemoryStick for recording a TV show. But only MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is important, PVR decoders with […] Continue reading →
Please get your coffee cup before you start reading this blog entry, cause this is a longer one… Introduction I haven’t been playing with DVB-T for a while, and when Marcus Overhagen open-sourced his DVB-T work to the Haiku-OS project, I wanted to see how the test broadcasts where coming along in Norway. I knew that Norway was not to use MPEG-2, but instead go for H.264 (MPEG-4). It turned out that NTV already had switched their test broadcasts from the Tryvann antenna to the […] Continue reading →
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