Exclusive: DTT retreat due to high costs German commercial TV broadcasters Channel 21, Bibel TV and Regionalfernsehen Oberbayern will discontinue their digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) in Bavaria because of the high costs compared with cable, satellite and IPTV, the channels told Rapid TV News. At the beginning of this week, Bavarian media authority BLM announced that the channels will withdraw from terrestrial airwaves in Munich and Southern Bavaria as well as Nuremberg Read more [...]

Revolution in the Living Room: FabCon 3.D Touches the Modern Nerve MakerBot, Ultimaker, fabbster - Trend Setters Come to Erfurt; FabLab-Area Invites All to Join Talk Shops and to Celebrate ERFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Apr 17, 2013) - FabCon 3.D: 14. and 15. May 2013 -- The new technology highlight in the Erfurt Exhibition calendar is FabCon 3.D -- the platform for Makers and 3D-Printers that touches the modern nerve. Almost four weeks before its start, Germany's first Personal Fabrication Read more [...]

Renewables villages are an up-and-coming concept being adopted by farmers and villagers across Germany. Scott Casey visited the Bavarian town of Großbardorf to witness the idea in action. With about 950 citizens Großbardorf, in north eastern Bavaria, is a comparatively poor community, suffering underinvestment by business and the state as a result of its proximity to the old Cold War border between East and West. But when local mayor Josef Demar made the decision to rebuild part of the town's Read more [...]

ERFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Apr 17, 2013) -   FabCon 3.D: 14. and 15. May 2013 -- The new technology highlight in the Erfurt Exhibition calendar is FabCon 3.D -- the platform for Makers and 3D-Printers that touches the modern nerve. Almost four weeks before its start, Germany's first Personal Fabrication Convention in the industry is being saluted and its ever increasing fan base of 3D-Printers is showing increasing interest. Around 25 exhibitors -- from manufacturers of commercial Read more [...]