The FINANCIAL — Motorola (NYSE:MOT) on April 14 announced its support of Active Format Description (AFD), which allows high-definition (HD) content to be converted to standard-definition (SD) ...

An occasional series spotlighting current HD projects underway across various media and media groups. The AFD Ready Initiative is a recently added online resource for Active Format Description that is ...

Fox, NBC Universal and PBS have deployed active format description—or AFD—ready technologies at more than 350 television stations nationwide. In addition, more than 40 broadcast equipment ...

Spanish public broadcaster TVE has announced it will start tests to broadcast in widescreen on its Eutelsat Hot Bird 8 broadcasts of the free-to-air channels TVE International and 24 Horas from ...