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SET Expo 2026: How MPEG-H Audio from Fraunhofer IIS Powers DTV+ in Brazil

A new era of television audio is arriving in Brazil. Visit Fraunhofer IIS at the Anhembi District Convention Center, from August 17 to 20 in São Paulo (Brazil) and experience the interactive and personalized audio technologies powering Brazil’s new DTV+ (TV 3.0) broadcasting standard.

August 12, 2026
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Siegfried Fößel Appointed Head of Technology Study Program at HFF Munich

Dr. Siegfried Fößel, who leads the Moving Picture Technologies department at Fraunhofer IIS, has been appointed as the new head of the Technology study program at the University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich. Alongside his industry duties, he will be joining the department chair Prof. Peter C. Slansky in advancing current developments in this HFF department.

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easyDCP software suite – Ten years of enabling easy access to Digital Cinema

For almost a century it was sufficient to use a film roll, a projector, and a white wall or sheet of linen to display movie content at any time everywhere in the world. That seemed to be over – when digital became the new magic code for cinema beginning in the year 2005. The intention of the team of Heiko Sparenberg and Siegfried Foessel at Fraunhofer IIS was to keep this easy access to movie...

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Fraunhofer IIS MPEG-H Authoring Plug-in Now Available for Download

MPEG­-H Audio supports several use cases for interactivity of object­-based audio, such as defining of switching groups or presets for selection by the end-user. MPEG-H metadata contains all relevant information for reproduction and rendering in arbitrary reproduction layouts: in­formation about the audio components inside the bit stream and their hierarchical structure, as well as restrictive metadata by which the content creator can allow or limit the interactive possibilities that...