Something to potentially keep an eye out for in the halls of this year’s NAB Show is any technology that can deliver a set of live/linear DVB-DASH streams, together with the required DVB-I service list that points to these channels, and of course a cloud hosted instance. This is because The DVB Project, an alliance of technology companies co-developing open specifications for media delivery, has just issued an RFP for this exact set of credentials. The aim with DVB-DASH, a subset of MPEG-DASH, is to underpin the delivery of live and on-demand content over the internet via adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming—a necessary technical hop for broadcast TV in Europe to remain relevant. The DVB Project had around 200member companies circa…