May 1, 2025

Plugfest announcement: Milan June 2025

June 23^rd – June 27^th

Kineton offices, via Edoardo Bassini 56, 20133 Milan, Italy

Kineton is delighted to announce the second International Plugfest planned for this year in cooperation with the HbbTV Association. The Kineton Plugfest will take place from Monday, June 23, to Wednesday, June 25, at the Kineton offices in Milan, Italy. The HbbTV Testing Event and Testing Group meeting will follow until June 27.

Plugfests provide a fantastic, controlled platform for all participants to collaborate towards achieving interoperability and delivering an excellent user experience.

Interoperability tests cover cutting-edge technologies such as UHD-4K/8K, HDR, HFR, NGA, HbbTV, DVB-I and HDMI (2.0/2.1a/2.1b) interoperability with sources (STBs/streaming devices, sound bars, AVRs, laptops, encoders) and sinks (TVs, projectors, display monitors etc).

The Plugfest is open to all companies interested in testing/validating their AV products/software/content/apps interoperability & compatibility with others’ implementations. Participants include TV device manufacturers, broadcasters, technology providers, platform operators, encoder providers, test equipment manufacturers, research & development institutions, standardisation bodies as well as HbbTV app, HbbTV OpApp and DVB-I client developers.

Plugfest Date: June 23-25, 2025
Venue: Kineton offices, via Edoardo Bassini 56, 20133 Milan, Italy
Who: Free for all HbbTV members. Nominal fee applicable for non-members. Attendance is strictly restricted to participants only.

The Plugfest is part of a week-long event, which also includes the HbbTV Testing Event, focusing on the HbbTV Test Suite v2025-2 validation, and the HbbTV Testing Group meeting from June 25^th to June 27^th. The Testing Event is open to HbbTV members only.

The Plugfest provides an opportunity for the HbbTV implementers to execute tests on their devices and log those executions as part of the evidence required to approve test cases for the HbbTV Test Suite v2025-2 release. The representatives of test material providers will be available to discuss problems found with either the test material or implementation. The Testing Event participants will have temporary access to the test harness, necessary for executing the test cases at the event. The test plan will be distributed to the event participants a day before. Participants should be TRAA assignees to have access to the HbbTV Test Repository.

Event details:

Please register here.

For content-related questions about the Plugfest, please contact Salvatore Martino at salvatore.martino@kineton.it

For content-related questions about the HbbTV Testing Event or the face-to-face HbbTV Testing Group meeting, please contact Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, Samsung Electronics at van.nguyen@samsung.com.