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BBC Adopts European HbbTV Standard as UK Leaves EUBritish public broadcaster BBC is bidding farewell to its legacy MHEG standard for interactive TV even as its government starts to develop a plan to exit the European Union. The MHEG standard was originally developed nearly 20 years ago, before web technologies had started to enter the world of pay-TV. It was designed to work with very basic set-top boxes and was considerably more limited than the current, browser-based interactive platforms. HbbTV, on the other hand, has emerged only in the past six to eight years, primarily as a German initiative though other countries (most notably France) have also played a role. It uses more current web technologies such as HTML5 and CCS3, making it easier for web developers to create new applications aimed at TVs, using familiar tools. The move had been advocated by the Digital TV Group (DTG) in a recent paper "Towards a Common European Technical Standard for Interactive Services on Free-To-Air TV Platforms," published earlier this year. The DTG is a group of 125 companies, with a mandate to develop interoperability and collaboration in the UK digital TV industry. It will work with the BBC and Freeview, as well as other industry stakeholders, to develop a transition plan to HbbTV 2.0.1, in time for manufacturers to build it into into 2018 Freeview Play products. The plan, due to be published in September, will include the development and sharing of test applications for HbbTV-based services. The announcement underscores the impact of the web on interactivity across all platforms. As TV services have become more interactive and on-demand, the need to integrate languages and tools familiar for web developers has become increasingly important. Like it or not, the web is leading digital innovation, and TV ecosystems are better off following and integrating with it rather than insisting on doing their own thing. Life is harder on your own, as anyone watching the British pound plunge over the past few days can tell you. — Aditya Kishore, Practice Leader, Video Transformation, Telco Transformation |
Contentious issues that are likely to fuel lawsuits and angry blogs in the coming year.
Content producers are unhappy with the advertising approach and revenues they are getting on Facebook Watch.
OTT video usage is driving the penetration of various Internet connected devices to help view online streams on the larger TV screen.
Major Hollywood studio to trial 'virtual' movie theaters using head-mounted displays.
Network technology vendor Sandvine has found that piracy isn't only hurting network operator profits – each pirated set-top box is also using up 1TB per month in 'phantom bandwidth.'
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