Interactive
TV Related Standards & Specifications
Standards (Associated with Technical Standard, International
Standard, TV
Standard, Open
Standard.)
Standards enable interaction and communication among an industry's
technical components. Compatible
standards and specifications can greatly aid in the proliferation of a
technology. Incompatible standards and platforms have been a major
obstacle to interactive TV adoption. Clearly this will be less of an
issue in the coming years. (Note the term "platforms"
is often used interchangeably with the terms "standards" and
"specifications".) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards
Listed
below are a number of current and past Interactive TV related
standards,
specifications and/or those providing them. (Also see middleware,
platforms,
architecture
and applications.)
3rd
Generation Partnership Project
(3GPP)
3rd
Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2)
Advanced
Television Enhancement Forum - (ATVEF) - The ATVEF was an early
adopter of Interactive TV
Specifications in the States.
ARIB (Japan)
- http://informitv.com/glossary/arib
ATIS
Blu-ray
BD-J
Application Development using Java ME (formerly J2ME), click here.
BOCR (Bidirectional OpenCable
Receiver), is being billed as the follow-on to "OCUR," the OpenCable
Unidirectional Receiver. OCUR-enabled PCs can support only one-way
broadcast cable digital services.
Broadband - As long as
interactive
television in the United States and elsewhere is hampered by
incompatible delivery systems and/or receivers,
broadband standards compatibility have become an
attractive interim solution.
CableCard 2.0
CableLabs®
Certified™ Cable Modem project -
(Formerly known as "DOCSIS.")
(DOCSIS
2.0 is the current generation standard/specification. DOCSIS 3.0 is
the speedy next generation standard that incorporates channel bonding
and IPv6.)
Cable
Applications Platform
DASE
(ATSC)
- Established in 1983, The ATSC
was set up to develop voluntary technical standards, including
interactive television systems and digital high definition television
(HDTV)
http://www.atsc.org/standards/a100.html
DCAS™ - A network-agnostic
solution for interactive two-way devices connected to cable systems.
DCAS allowes cable operators to download conditional access system(s)
of choice to devices connected to their cable network.
DDWG
Declarative
Content
Standard
(DCS) - Article
Doja - The DoJa
profile is a Java environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile
phone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doja
DTV
PSIP
DVB
- Major
European based consortium regarding the transmission of digital
television. DVB systems distribute data using a variety of approaches,
including by satellite: DVB-S, DVB-S2 and DVB-SH; also DVB-SMATV for
distribution via SMATV; cable (DVB-C); terrestrial television (DVB-T)
and terrestrial television for handhelds (DVB-H); also via microwave
using DTT (DVB-MT), the MMDS (DVB-MC), and/or MVDS standards (DVB-MS).
Also DVB-DATA, with return channels (DVB-RC) for several media (DECT,
GSM, PSTN/ISDN, satellite etc.), protocols (DVB-IPI: Internet Protocol;
DVB-NPI: network protocol independent), DVB-CA), (DVB-CSA), a physical
Common Interface (DVB-CI) for accessing scrambled content and DVB-CPCM,
a content protection and copy management system for received content.
DVB also supports older technologies such as teletext (DVB-TXT) and
vertical blanking interval data (DVB-VBI). (More advanced alternatives
like DVB-SUB for sub-titling are available.) http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/DVB.html
www.dvb.org & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB
DVB-HTML - www.hyperpanel.com/dvb-html.php
DVB-RCCL
DVB-RCS
DVB-S2
is an improved and updated specification to replace the DVB-S standard,
ratified by the ETSI
in March, 2005. Today the main use for this new
standard is the distribution of HDTV, while the original standard was
mainly applied to SDTV
services. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-S
http://webapp.etsi.org/workprogram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=21402
ETSI
(the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) is a not for
profit organization whose mission is to produce the telecommunications
standards that will be used for decades to come throughout Europe and
beyond. www.etsi.org
ETV-BIF (Enhanced
Television-Binary Interchange Format) - (EBIF) - Part of CableLabs ETV Standard. Until OCAP is
fully
implemented in the cable TV industry, EVT-BIF could be used to extend
more basic interactive applications to the currently deployed (and less
advanced) set-boxes.
In a major related development, Ensequence Interactive TV authoring
software is being used to create Interactive TV applications that run
on the TVWorks enhanced TV platform. (TVWorks is owned by Cox and
Comcast cable providers.) Look for cable providers to make big use of
ETV-BIF prior to deployment of their more advanced platform called
OCAP. Comcast and Cox wanted the TVWorks platform to be their
interactive application platform on their Motorola and Scientific
Atlanta set-top boxes, which are already in (as of later 2006) more
than 13 million customer homes. http://www5.sys-con.com/read/275797.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_TV_Binary_Interchange_Format
Also see ETV Standard below.
ETV/EBIF - See ETV-BIF above.
ETV Standard - (CableLabs) - Click
here. [itvt]
- Also see EBT-BIF above.
Extended
Wireless PC Initiative
GINGA-J
specification from Brazil's GINGA. (GINGA-J
is the standard middleware of Brazilian Digital TV.(PDF file.)
Globally
Executable MHP (GEM) http://informitv.com/glossary/gem
HDAVI
- (Enables component interactivity)
Home Phoneline Networking
(HomePNA)
HTML - (example)
IMAKE,
Alticast Partner on Open Standards Interactive TV Platform
IMPALA
- The International MHEG Promotion Alliance.
Interactive TV Web
- Welcome to the Interactive TV Web, a web site dedicated to open
standards for Interactive TV.
Interactive TV Standards Survey
Internet-connected Televisions
Internet Streaming Media Alliance
Infrared
Data
Association - (IrDA)
J2ME
CLDC
Java TV
JavaScript
Macromedia
Flash CDK for Interactive Television
MHEG
- (Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Coding Experts Group)
MHEG-5 is an interactive
software standard used for digital terrestrial
television in the UK, with over 12 million compatible receivers
deployed.
MHP (Multimedia
Home
Platform) - MHP is an open, multi-platform middleware specification
developed for interactive digital television by the
European-based
DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) organization (MHP-DVB). The MHP
specification is the basis for the OCAP
specification which has
been formally adopted by the American cable
industry. MHP adoption however has been frustrated by bickering over
technology and licensing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Home_Platform
http://www.mhp.org/mhp_technology
MIDP
- (Mobile
Information Device Profile)
- J2ME
Platform
-
Mobile
Phone and Data Standards (on right of that webpage.)
MoCA
Multimedia
over Coax Alliance (MoCA) -
An inside-the-home, coaxial
cable-based networking initiative. www.mocalliance.org
MVB-MHP
-
(out-dated) www.mhp.org
NABTS
OCAP (OpenCable
Application
Platform, now rebranded as “Tru2way.”) - The US cable TV advanced
Interactive Television standard.
OCUR (OpenCable
Unidirectional Receiver)
- This cable interface for
Microsoft Vista-enabled
personal computers will initially support one-way services (linear
TV) while a two-way interactive
interface is being developed.
OpenTV - OpenTV's
platform software is currently deployed in over 54 million
digital set-top-boxes in 96 countries.
Pantalk
PCF
(Portable Content Format) - http://informitv.com/glossary/pcf
pJava
- (PersonalJava)
- A former version of Java from Sun intended for PDAs and other
handheld devices.
pontegra
- pontegra
is the HTML platform to develop MHP services without any Java and MHP
skills.
PRQC
PSIP
- (Program
and Systems Information Protocol) - The ATSC standard for digital
television channel naming, numbering and navigation. DTV Receivers use
PSIP information to tune and label digital and analog channels.
SCTE - (The Society
of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) - www.scte.org
Skillset
- “Skillset is
the industry body which supports skills and training for people and
businesses to ensure the UK audio visual and publishing industries
maintain their world class position.”
SMPTE
-
(Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) - A professional
organization that sets standards for American television. www.smpte.org
TV-Anytime Forum
- The global TV-Anytime Forum is an association of organizations
seeking to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other
services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer
platforms - simply referred to as local storage. www.tv-anytime.org
TV-centric HTML
TV-HTML
- (Television Hypertext Markup Language) - Click
here.
WAPTV - (WapTV)
originated the WTVML (Worldwide TV Mark-up Language). WapTV has been
used for the delivery of Interactive TV applications.
WebTV
HTML
-
Wikipedia's list of commonly-found middlewares and
sources of TV Browsers.
WiMAX Networks
- WiMAX offers a broadband pipe through which to deliver advanced,
multichannel television services to mobile devices (such as phones) and
it's also interactive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax
XML
- http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-04-10-a.html
& www.itvstandards.org
XMLTV
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