25-September 2012

In 25 years activity, MPEG Committee, the International Working Group chaired by Leonardo Chiariglione , have sorted out and developed several world known digital formats like MPEG2, MP3, MPEG4 and now the last born is coming up, called HEVC, High Efficiency Video Codec. Representatives of international organizations like ISO, IEC, ITU e WIPO joined MPEG in Geneva last May to celebrate the 100th MPEG meeting.. The technical specifications are prepared by the “Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding”, made up by ISO e ITU 2 years ago in order to fine tune the main tech features of this emerging standard officially denominated MPEG-H, Part 2.

12th September 2012.

SKY is the Italian satellite pay tv and pay on demand tv broadcaster and Mediaset, Digital Terrestrial Television operator with free, pay per view and subscription channels (Premium), have reached an interesting agreement on which they will exchange the most interesting sports tv programs on the market.

21 September 2012. Centuries of history have taught many ways to monetize events off line. And there are also many ways to monetize large events online. However, on line monetization of medium-to-small events is often a challenge: an in-house service has high set up and maintenance costs, administrative costs of managing payment collection may eat significantly into the revenues and, more than anything else, it is hard to create trusts between parties concurring to the event organization and distribution.

5 September 2012 (svgeurope.org and presspool.it copyrights)

Born 32 years ago, in 1980 and completely planted in the roots of Tuscany province of Massa Carrara, world renowned for marbles, Antenna 3 has finally joined the digital terrestrial Italian landscape. Actually, and after a “long and winding road” of digital channels allowed to more than one tv station -a not too rare situation here- they are finally experimenting broadcasts on a brand new channel, Banda III, Channel 7.