10 Year HbbTV Anniversary Special

Join us on an exciting journey to the treasure chamber of HbbTV and experience how the standard became a global success in just one decade.

Explore HbbTV Milestones

The history of HbbTV begins a few years before 2010. This section features important milestones which paved the way for the ongoing development of the open standard from its beginning until today. One thing becomes clear: HbbTV is an international project, which has its roots in close collaboration by European market players and continues to drive the technical capabilities of broadcast and broadband networks and services.

Historic Material

In this area you will find interesting historic footage: pictures, videos, press releases, articles and presentations. The microsite 10 years HbbTV is an ongoing, expanding platform. We would like to add more material step by step. Do you have pictures, videos, articles, presentations or other material in your archive? You are welcome to get in touch with the HbbTV MarCom team to use this opportunity of sharing these important documents.

Quotes by Eyewitnesses

The development and success story of HbbTV in the last decade and earlier is the result of many people from different nations and professions working together. In this section you will find a selection of quotes by people involved with HbbTV and statements about how they see HbbTV personally.

Global unique success

The HbbTV standard is a unique global success story. It builds the bridge between the broadcast and broadband worlds and enables consumers to access compelling next generation entertainment content.

—Thomas Fuchs, Fuchs Media Consult

Perfect match

“We are convinced that open standards like HbbTV can help the market to thrive. HbbTV is a perfect match for broadcasters, platform operators, TV manufacturers and consumer. German TV-Platform is proud to have succeeded in moderating the dialogue on requirements for the HbbTV 2 standard at an early stage – especially between broadcasters and the manufacturers. In this way, we have been able to set the course for the further development of HbbTV both on services and hardware level, and for the consumer to be able to fully benefit of the broadcasters’ HbbTV offerings.”

—Carine Chardon, Deutsche TV-Plattform