Blu-ray did well at the High-Def 2.0 conference. The conference was a one day event sponsored by Home Media Magazine in cooperation with The Hollywood Reporter and the Entertainment Merchants Association.
Awards were given out for the best High Definition discs, the Blu-ray title Casino Royale got the Live Action Title of the Year, while ‘300′ was awarded the best overall HD Disc. In all Blu-ray picked up 7 or the 11 awards on offer.
Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator is proposing an upgrade of the broadcasting technology to allow for more channels and HD TV broadcasts. The changes involved would be changing the coding standard for digital terrestrial television (DTT) from MPEG2 to MPEG4. This change will effectively make it twice as efficient.
Ed Richards, head of Ofcom, said: “Our proposals to upgrade Digital Terrestrial Television represent a major opportunity to build on its success with wider, richer and more varied television services, including the potential for HDTV to be made available to millions of people free to air. We look forward to hearing the views of viewers and from right across the industry.”