News from association members

HD Forum Italia announces its leaders for the next three years. Benito Manlio Mari and Deputy Vicar Sebastiano Trigila unanimously confirmed.

HD Forum Italia, in anticipation of the transition to the new interactive TV system, promoted the first Italian interoperability workshop for HbbTV 2: Hybrid broadband TV receivers, the second generation interactive middleware system that will replace the current one ( MHP) on TVs and STBs sold on the Italian market. The event, which took place […]

In this interview, Marco Pellegrinato, vice president of HD Forum Italia, explains how adopting the HbbTV 2.0.1 standard for interactive TV services – that will gradually replace MHP – will affect the domestic television market. “HDFI expects HbbTV 2.0.1 to be a huge success, bringing positive knock-on effects in terms of sales and new services […]

At the European Digital Forum 2017, in Lucca, Vice President Marco Pellegrinato presented the activities of the ‘Joint Technical Group’ – a working body established within HDFI – with a view to the publication of the Ultra HD Book 1.0, the latest in a series of documents that contain technical specifications Intended for the manufacturers […]

A demo aerea and a panel for an open discussion on the evolutionary scenarios of the audiovisual landscape The Italian initiatives of the HD Forum Italia (HDFI) are under way, after the participation in the MIPTV in Cannes in April. They start from the European Forum Digital 2017 in Lucca on Thursday and Friday (15 […]

The organizers of the MIPTV Workshop, which took place in Cannes from 3 to 6 April, invited HD Forum Italia to bring about the experience of the major broadcasters operating in Italy (RAI, Mediaset and Vatican Television Center) for UHD, in an ad hoc session of the event. The President Benito Manlio Mari and the […]