List of Video Services Using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Terrestrial Broadcast Adoption

Terrestrial Broadcast Adoption

• Brazil's terrestrial broadcast service uses H.264/AVC in ISDB-T.

• Colombia announced in August 2008 the adoption of the DVB-T broadcasting standard.

• Czech Republic, O2, one of DVB-T providers is broadcasting HD versions of TV channels CT1 and Nova experimentally in H.264/AVC.

• France's prime minister announced the selection of H.264/AVC as a requirement for receivers of HDTV

and Pay TV channels for digital terrestrial broadcast television services (referred to as "TNT") in France in late 2004.

• Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Slovenia are expected to use H.264/AVC for all terrestrial digital television services.

• Hong Kong leading broadcaster, TVB, selected H.264 in for new digital services there, including HDTV service, in the China DMB-T/H system environment, starting from the end of 2007. Asia Television Limited has joined this decision and uses H.264 for its new digital services too (both broadcasters use MPEG-2 to encode the digital simulcast of the existing analogue channels.)

• Hungary's DVB-T service, MinDigTV, uses H.264 for encoding both SD and HD transmissions, including simulcasts of analogue channels.

• Japan's Mobile-segment terrestrial broadcast services of ISDB-T (1seg) uses the H.264/AVC codec, including major broadcasters such as NHK and Fuji Television.

• Korea's Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) service will use H.264/AVC.

• Poland will test DVB-T transmissions (as of 2007 working reliably for several years) use MPEG-2, but commercial run

scheduled after 2010 will be MPEG-4 only.

• United Kingdom started high definition DTT broadcasts using H.264 for its DVB-T2 FTA service Freeview HD service from 2 sites on 2 December 2009 although no DVB-T2 receivers were sold to consumers until mid February 2010. One multiplex at each main transmission station is to be converted from DVB-T to DVB-T2 as part of the UK's Digital Switch Over service to provide capacity for 4 HD stations. Areas like London are being allocated an additional frequency in advance of DSO planned for 2012 to allow over 50% of the population to be in range of the service by the time of the World Cup in June 2010. The first two stations broadcast were BBC HD and ITV HD, although the later will be publicly launched along with the Freesat HD version on 2 April 2010. Channel 4 HD is due to start broadcasts in later April 2010.
• Portugal's DVB-T service from Portugal Telecom will use H.264 for encoding both SD and HD transmissions starting in 2009.

• New Zealand's Freeview service launched its DVB-T transmissions in March 2008 using H.264/AVC.

• Norway's NTV use H.264/AVC for its national DVB-T broadcasting started October 2007 in central southern areas of Norway. Norway is among the first to use MPEG-4/AVC exclusively in all its terrestrial television broadcasts, finished by November 2008. The analogue transponders were switched off in 2009

• Singapore's first over-the-air HDTV channel, MediaCorp HD5, uses H.264/AVC.

• Pan-Arab States first over-the-air national TV stations, uses H.264/AVC.

• Italy's DVB-T services from RAI (public broadcaster) and Mediaset (largest commercial broadcaster) use H.264/AVC for encoding HD transmissions since 2008.