TVP starts 4K tests

The Polish public broadcaster TVP will begin a 4K DVB-T2 trial on Friday, July 3.

Its main aims will be to test the compatibility of consumer DVB-T2 4K receivers employing HEVC; to test the emission quality of different parameters of transmission and reception of 4K signals; to measure and optimise the technical parameters of broadcasting in DVB-T2 in order to maximise technical reach; and – from July 20 – to compare the broadcast quality if 4K signals through different distribution channels, namely the web, TVP hybrid platform and mobile apps.

The trial will last until the end of the month, with reception only being possible in the Warsaw area.

TVP assesses HbbTV progress

TVP now has 160,000 HbbTV users a month, according to Wieslaw Lodzikowski, the public broadcaster’s director of technology.

Speaking in a panel discussion entitledInteractive Television: How to reach and engage audiences, he added that this figure compared to 1,500 when it launched its first hybrid apps 15 months ago, initially for Euro 2012.

According to Lodzikowski, TVP’s strategy is one of educating viewers and making them interactive.

However, to do so requires it to find out as much as possible about them and this was not always welcome, with some believing they were being checked to see if they had paid their receiver licence fees.

Lodzikowski also spoke highly of the HbbTV service being developed by TVP’s Spanish counterpart RTVE and the fact that some of its elements have been developed specifically for kids.