Mirjam Schuster

The DVB.org competition for the best DVB-I applications has announced its winners. The DTVP was represented by its former managing director Carine Lea Chardon in the high-profile jury. The main prize goes to StreamHub for their Android app.

The German TV Platform has published its Activity Report 2025. Panels, Plugfest with record participation, anniversary, and relocation — an eventful year in review.

The board of the German TV Platform has appointed Nicole Ludwig as the new Managing Director. She will take over the role on December 1, 2025, succeeding Carine Chardon, who is moving to GFU Consumer & Home Electronics GmbH after 17 years.

In 2025, 4.8 million TV sets were sold. This represents an increase of 3.2 percent compared to 2024 (nearly 4.7 million). This is according to the current CE Industry Compass by ZVEI and Deutsche TV-Plattform in cooperation with NIQ.

On November 2, 1990, 19 decision-makers founded the 'National HDTV Platform Germany' at Frankfurt Airport — today, the German TV Platform is an association of over 50 companies and actively shapes the technologies of digital television as a neutral industry forum.

At the 16th Plugfest and HbbTV Testing Event at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, more than 30 companies from 13 countries tested the interoperability of new TV applications in around 200 test sessions — the most successful event of its kind to date.

On November 18, 2025, ZDF will discontinue SD broadcasting via satellite. ZDF, ZDFneo, ZDFinfo, 3sat, and KiKA will then be available exclusively in HD. The German TV Platform and ZVEI recommend private households and operators of communal facilities to check their reception devices in good time.

As part of the IBC 2025, the German TV Platform and DVB have agreed on an official liaison. The partnership intensifies collaboration on topics such as DVB-I and accessibility and creates a common basis for the introduction of new standards in Germany and Europe.

The CE Industry Compass Q1/2025 records a significant increase: 1.2 million TV sets sold represent a rise of 15.4 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. The driver was the ARD SD shutdown at the beginning of 2025 — it also massively boosted the sales of set-top boxes, which increased by 147 percent to 422,000 units.

The termination of ARD's SD-quality broadcast via satellite has led to a special boom in the business of televisions and receivers ("set-top boxes") for HDTV reception. According to current figures from GfK, around 1.6 million TV sets were sold in the fourth quarter of 2024 – 6.2 percent more than in the same period of the previous year.