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The Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT) (Institute for Broadcasting Technology Ltd.) was a research centre of German broadcasters (ARD / ZDF / DLR), Austria's broadcaster (ORF) and the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG / SSR). It was responsible for research on broadcasting technology. It was founded in 1956cite-ref-dtve-1-0[1] and was located in Munich, Germany.

They invented or were influential in the research, development and field-testing of important standards such as ARI, RDS, VPS, DSR, DAB and DVB-T.

Institut für Rundfunktechnik was a founding member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies that established an open European standard (called HbbTV) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

In 2020, ZDF and then other supporters indicated that they planned to withdraw from the organization, so the IRT was closed by the end of 2020.cite-ref-dtve-1-1[1]cite-ref-rw-2020-2-0[2]

• Former members

• See also

• References

• Further reading

• External links

• Bayerischer Rundfunk

• Deutsche Welle

• Deutschlandradio

• Hessischer Rundfunk

• Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

• Norddeutscher Rundfunk

• Österreichischer Rundfunk

• Radio Bremen

• Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

• Saarländischer Rundfunk

• SRG SSR

• Südwestrundfunk

• Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln

• ZDF

• BBC Research & Development

• High Com FM (researched and field-trialed by IRT between 1979 and 1984)cite-ref-schroeder-2009-3-0[3]

• Wittmoor List (maintained by IRT up to June 2018)

• European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• DVB Project

• WorldDAB

• Public broadcasting

• Teletext

• Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt (FTZ)

• Rundfunk- und Fernsehtechnisches Zentralamt (RFZ)

• Informations-Verarbeitungs-Zentrum (IVZ)

cite-note-dtve-11. ↑ citerefthomson2020Thomson, Stuart (2020-08-03). "Germany's Institut für Rundfunktechnik to shut down". Digital TV Europe. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

cite-note-rw-2020-22. ↑ citerefweise2020Weise, Detlef (2020-04-12). "IRT to Close by End of 2020". Radio World. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

cite-note-schroeder-2009-33. ↑ citerefschr-der2009Schröder, Ernst F. (2009) [2007]. "The Story of HIGH COM". Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-04-16. [1]

• citerefschierbaumschmidlenachlinger2020Schierbaum, Thomas; Schmidle, Carola; Nachlinger, Martina, eds. (2020-09-09). "#IRTHISTORY – Wir blicken zurück auf 64 Jahre Rundfunktechnik" [Looking back at 64 years of radio broadcasting history] (in German). Institut für Rundfunktechnik. Archived from the original on 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-04-30.

• Official website

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210430071454/https://www.irt.de/en/home

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210430023055/https://www.irt.de/de/publikationen/technische-richtlinien/technische-richtlinien-archiv Technical guidelines