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Global
News
April
2, 2003
DTG,
Mediacast to promote DTT conference
BRITAIN
-- The Digital TV Group (DTG) has announced a one-day
conference on DTT at Mediacast 2003, the three-day industry
show that takes place at Excel in London Docklands on
20-22 May.
Organised
by the DTG in association with Mediacast, and featuring
senior and authoritative speakers drawn from the industry-wide
membership of the DTG and the government-backed Action
Plan, the conference is scheduled for Wednesday 21 May,
and will consist of a morning session on The Business
of DTT, and an afternoon session on Technology Challenges.
Sessions will be a mix of formal presentations and panel
discussions.
The
first session covers the digital terrestrial free-to-view
dealing with the launch of Freeview; DTT in Europe;
business plans for DTT; and the DTT market and the consumer.
The afternoon session examines the route from here to
switchover, with speakers from the government-backed
Action Plan; testing and conformance -- the key to the
horizontal market; and from here to convergence. This
last seminar looks at the implementation issues surrounding
new products such as PVRs, Internet-on-TV devices, in-home
networking technologies, and the multimedia home platform.
Martin
L. Bell, DTG director of communications, said: "The
DTG plays a central role in the industry's joint effort
to define and smooth the path to analog switchover,
and brings an authoritative voice to discussion of these
subjects. We are delighted to be supporting Mediacast
for this conference at this crucial point in the deployment
of DTT in the UK.
"As
the new DTT channel line-up, Freeview, continues to
grow in popularity, and as a whole range of new and
diverse products for digital TV become available to
the consumer, the long march toward universal digital
take-up is entering a new phase. The DTG's one-day conference
on DTT at Mediacast 2003 will explore the business and
technical issues of the platform, primarily in the UK,
but with reference to the many emerging DTT markets
elsewhere in Europe and the world. In particular, we
will look at the complex issue of interoperability in
the horizontal market, the success of which will be
a key factor in creating the conditions in which consumers
come to regard digital TV as the norm."
Contact:
The Digital TV Group
Tel: 44-1730-893144/44-20-8910-7910
Email: office@dtg.org.uk
Web: www.dtg.org.uk
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