| 2003 |
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| May 16 |
First film screened digitally in cinemas from a DVD is The Dangerous Lives of Altar
Boys, shown in four Norwegian cinemas in Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Moss and Risør. The projection system
is that used for pre-film screening of advertising, not the high-resolution kind being developed for cinema
presentations. |
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| July |
DigitAlb launches a digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Albania. |
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| July |
Shijak TV becomes the first Albanian television station
available across Europe via satellite. |
à 2004 |
| August 4 |
Germany's Berlin-Brandenburg region completes the conversion from analogue to digital terrestrial television and becomes the first location in the world to switch off analogue transmitters. |
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| September 19 |
Sun TV begins transmissions in standard and high definition television from the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. |
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| October |
Voom direct-to-home (DTH) satellite service, including 39 high-definition channels, is launched in the US by Rainbow Media, competing with DirecTV and EchoStar. |
à 2005 |
| November |
Chinese manufacturers display the Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) in Beijing as a next-generation contender to succeed DVD. Developed by China’s Beijing E-world Technology and the US technology company On2 Technologies, it is supported by 10 leading Chinese consumer electronics manufacturers and has been approved by the Standards Administration of China. It stores 120 minutes of high definition content on a dual-layer 9 Gb DVD disc. |
à 2004 |
| December 1 |
Japan begins digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmissions. |
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| December 31 |
In the Netherlands, the new Media Act (Mediawet) comes into force. |
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National Broadcasting Company changes its name to NBC Universal. |
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