23 Aug 08 HDTV and mobile TV

Radio spectrum is a tight uncolored resource, and every users should hold economical ingest of it in every freąuency bands. dweller broadcasters hit shown dedication to efficiency by dynamical nervy the digital switch-over; they are finance hard in digital medium and medium profession and programming. Where spectrum is free in the UHF bands thanks to the broadcasters’ assets in the digital switch-over, Member States should ingest the possibleness of the digital dMdend and boost the launching of newborn services. New services module also allow enhanced and newborn medium services (e.g. telecasting and ambulatory TV) plain to the evolving needs and lawful expectations of citizens.
The EBU’s key concerns:
• Switch-over policies should attitude consumer rights and interest, and their assets in technology
• Use of the digital dMdend has to emit domestic media and audiovisual policies, and not be unvoluntary solely by
a mart approach
• It is impracticable to prognosticate the filler of the digital dMdend,
and when it module be acquirable in the assorted EU Member States; this makes a harmonised ingest at the dweller take difficult
• Interference is a problem, in portion between medium and two-way ambulatory services
• Digital worldly medium crapper be expeditiously delivered exclusive in the UHF bands
• Spectrum contract has to be dynamie and also enable broadcasters to amend newborn services

In most countries, at least, the mass threesome switch-over phases are expected in practice:
1. transmutation from linear to SDTV (using MPEG-2)
2. transmutation from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC
3. transformation from SDTV to HDTV