Technology

ATSC Mobile DTV is built around a robust transmission system based on VSB modulation, with enhanced error correction and other techniques to improve robustness and reduce power consumption in portable receivers.

The children's services of the BBC will receive an additional £25.5 million (R306m approx) over the next three years. This funding will be used partly towards bigger budget shows.

Major Hollywood studio Fox Filmed Entertainment has launched a digital content division for new platforms such as mobile, the web and gaming.

As from 2010, Taiwan will allocate spectrum to accommodate two mobile TV services. Over the last few years, the country has embarked on several mobile TV trials.

DStv’s cross-media platform Vuzu has secured the streaming rights for its website for the 130-episode sci-fi series, Afterworld.

For the seventh year running, the South African public supported the Annual Tri Continental Film Festival which took place through September and October in Soweto, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Tri Continental screens engaging and thought provoking films that encourage dialogue and debate amongst the audience.

As one might expect, Quentin Tarantino’s new film, the oddly spelt Inglourious Basterds, went straight to the top of the South African box office when it opened on the weekend of 23 to 25 October. It made just over R1m.

In a prime example of how M-Net’s youth-oriented Vuzu channel uses its cross-platform media format, the channel is running a competition on its social networking website around the eagerly awaited film, Michael Jackson’s This Is It.

South Africa’s entry into the foreign language film category of the Oscars, White Wedding, won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival in San Raphael, US, on 18 October.

The Czech government has approved an incentive plan for foreign film shoots that would refund 20% of their expenses.