RTRS to pilot HbbTV services in three Russian cities

Russia’s state-owned broadcasting organisation RTRS is to pilot HbbTV services in three Russian cities, digitaltveurope.net reports.

According to its deputy CEO Viktor Pinchuk, RTRS was currently testing HbbTV-based hybrid broadcast broadband services using technology from three international providers.

Speaking at the CSTB 2013 event in Moscow, he said that it would then move to a pilot phase in three cities with populations over one million, using set-top boxes that also supported DVB-T2 broadcasts.