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Interactive
TV
Related Standards & Specifications
(Standards implimentation,
products,
services and websites vary with time. Please verify.)
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. (Note the term "platforms"
is often used interchangeably with the terms "standards" and
"specifications".)
Listed
below are a number of current and
past Interactive TV related standards, specifications
and/or those
providing them. Many
don't
have direct involvement with interactive television but could be
related in some way.
(Also see middleware,
platforms,
architecture
and applications.)
3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
3rd
Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2)
ACAP
(Advanced Common Application Platform for Interactive Television) -
Formally known as DCAP.
Adobe
Flash
Advanced
Advertising 1.0 - Canoe Ventures and CableLabs
reference architecture specification.
Advanced
Audio Coding -
(AAC) - An
audio compression
format.
ADTT
- (Advanced Digital Television Technologies)
Advanced
Satellite Advertising Platform (ASAP) - A fully measurable interactive
advertising platform that gives national television advertisers reach
to Dish Network and DirecTV's U.S. households.
Advanced Television Enhancement
Forum
- (ATVEF) - The ATVEF was an early adopter of Interactive TV
Specifications in the States.
ADSI
ADSL
AIT
AllVid - AllVid
is an
universal adapter for televisions and related components. AllVid
is an IP
gateway adapter used for searching broadcast and video content across
incompatable DVRs,
TVs
and other "smart video" devices.
Android
-
Google TV.
APEX Platform
- The APEX
platform supports standards-based video and high-speed data interfaces.
ARIB
(Japan)
ATIS
ATSC
Mobile DTV Standard
ATSC
Standards
ATSC 3.0
NEXT GEN TV
Audiovisual
Media Services Directive (The) - (The AVMS
Directive)
replaces the former Television Without Frontiers Directive.
BBC
Future
Media Standards & Guidlines
BHTML
BIFS
(Binary Format for Scene)
BML
(Broadcast Markup Language) (Japan)
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.
BONDING
Specification
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.
Broadcast
Compositing Library - (BroadcastCL)
DVB-C2
- the second-generation baseline transmission system for DTV
broadcasting via cable networks.
CI+
Specification - A standard for enabling interactive
applications
in smart card modules and more.
CableCard
2.0
To find out more about an
entity's
involvement with interactive television, type both their name and
"interactive television" in a search engine.
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.
DCR
Plus
(Digital Cable Ready Plus) - At the time of this writing, the Consumer
Electronics Association is supporting this competing interactive TV
standard to Tru2way.
The CEA looks at “DCR Plus” as an extension to
CableCards. It could standardize access to cable services that require
two-way communication, such as video on demand, switched digital video,
on-screen program guides and pay per view. The CEA has stated that DCR
Plus is a lightweight complement to OpenCable (Tru2way).
DDWG
Declarative Content Standard
(DCS)
DHTML
Digital
Video Interface - (DVI)
DLNA
Streaming
DMB 2.0
(Digital
Multimedia Broadcasting 2.0) - An interactive TV service based on
mobile Internet networks. DMB 2.0 enables viewers to surf a number of
data-based services such as stock updates, e-commerce, weather updates
and digital video recordings (DVRs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting
DOCSIS
Doja
- The DoJa profile is a Java environment specification for DoCoMo's
i-mode mobile phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doja
DSM-CC
DSS
DTCP-IP
DTV PSIP - DTV Innovations
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.)
www.dvb.org
& https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB
DVB
EuroModem
DVB-HTML
To find out more about an
entity's
involvement with interactive television, type both their name and
"interactive television" in a search engine.
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.
Digital
Video Interactive - An early standard for full-motion desktop
video, dating from the late 1980s.
EBIF I06
-
An EBIF (Enhanced TV
Binary Interchange Format) specification. for interactive
television.
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, ETV/EBIF)
-
(EBIF) - (Enhanced Television-Binary Interchange Format, EBIF, ETV) -
EBIF, or Enhanced (TV) Binary Interchange Format, is a binary form of
XML (extensible markup language). EBIF is part of CableLabs' ETV
Standard. Until tru2way
is fully implemented in the cable TV industry, EVT-BIF can be used to
extend more basic but impressive interactive applications to the
currently deployed (and less advanced) set-boxes. A number of
interactive TV technology providers work with ETV-BIF (EBIF).
The
EBIF content format is meant to represent an optimized collection of
widget and specifications for the definition of multimedia type pages
which appear similar to web pages. These "pages" are for use within an
enhanced television or interactive television system.
Also see ETV Standard
below.
ETV/EBIF
- See ETV-BIF
above. www.ebif.tv
ETV
Standard -
(CableLabs) - Go to www.cablelabs.org
and in their search field type in "ETV Standard".
EuroDOCSIS
European
Telecommunications Standards Institute
Extended
Wireless PC Initiative - An inititative
supported by Intel
that aids in the distribution of digital media throughout the home.
FS-VDSL
- Full-Service Very High-speed Digital Subscriber Line.
GINGA-J
specification from
Brazil's GINGA. (GINGA-J
is a
standard middleware of Brazilian Digital TV.)
Globally Executable MHP
(GEM)
GlobalPlatform
- GlobalPlatform provides a suite of smart card specifications.
Google
TV (Dragonpoint) - This hardware/software specification helps users
navigate among web-based offerings on television sets and serves as a
platform for developers. This technology is also for use in blu-ray
players and set-top boxes. See video clip about Google TV.
GSM
(Global System for Mobile Communications) is a very popular standard
for mobile telephone systems.
HbbTV
Specification (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV)
HDAVI -
(Enables
component interactivity)
HDMI
- (High Definition Multimedia Interface) - HDMI is an uncompressed,
all-digital audio/video interface.
HITS®
(Headend in the Sky)
Home Phoneline Networking
(HomePNA)
HomePlug
AV
HTML
HTML 5
- HTML 5
could become a standard for mobile and other networked
devices. HTML 5 can present web site animation without using Flash. See
Informitv.
ICAP
Infrared Data Association
-
(IrDA)
Infrared
Data Association Specifications
IMPALA
- The
International MHEG Promotion Alliance.
Integrated
Services Digital Broadcasting
Interactive
TV Standards - the book
Interactive TV Standards Survey
Interactive TV Web
-
Welcome to the Interactive TV Web, a web site dedicated to open
standards for Interactive TV.
Internet-connected
Televisions - Demo.
Internet Streaming Media Alliance
Interactive
Services Architecture - (ISA)
J2ME
CLDC - (Connected Limited Device Configuration)
Java TV
JavaScript (Interactive
TV Related)
Macromedia
Flash CDK for
Interactive
Television
Meta-Mirror
MHEG -
(Multimedia and
Hypermedia Information Coding Experts Group)
MHEG-5 is
an interactive
software standard.
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
(tru2way) specification which has been formally adopted by
the
American cable industry. MHP adoption however has been frustrated by
bickering over technology and licensing...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Home_Platform
MIDP
- (Mobile
Information Device Profile) - J2ME Platform -
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:J2ME
Mobile
Phone and Data Standards
MAOSCO
Mobile DTV
MoCA
To find out more about an
entity's
involvement with interactive television, type both their name and
"interactive television" in a search engine.
Multimedia
over
Coax Alliance (MoCA)
- An inside-the-home, coaxial cable-based networking initiative. www.mocalliance.org
MVB-MHP
- (out-dated)
NABTS
National
Institute of Standards and Technology – (NIST)
Next
Generation Interactive Multimedia, Applications and Services initiative
- (Singapore) - Media Development Authority and the Infocomm
Development Authority.
NexTView EPG standard
NorDig
NTSC
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.
OEDN - The OCAP/EBIF Developer Network.
OIPF
(Open
IPTV Forum)
OLE
– (Object Linking and Embedding)
OpenHbb
- A connected TV standard OpenWidget project.
Open
IPTV Forum
Open
Mobile Alliance
Open Screen Project
- Lead by
Adobe.
OpenTV
-
OpenTV's platform
software has been integrated in more than 138 million devices around
the world (as of 2/2010).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PersonalJava
& Spyglass
PR.
pontegra
- pontegra is the HTML platform to develop MHP services without any
Java and MHP skills.
Project Atlas
Project
Canvas - See YouView.
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) - SCTE-130 - 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
Television
Without Frontiers
Directive
The
Open
Group
Tru2way -
See OpenCable
Application Platform (OCAP).
To find out more about an
entity's
involvement with interactive television, type both their name and
"interactive television" in a search engine.
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 (PDF
file)
TV
Everywhere Initiative
TV-HTML -
(Television Hypertext
Markup Language)
Universal
Television Adserver Interface (UTAI) - An advertising technology
designed to standardise and simplify video advertising on hybrid TVs.
VC-1
Video
Electronics Standards Association (VESA)
VOD Metadata 2.0
(Video-On-Demand
Metadata Content Specification 2.0)
- This CableLabs specification improved upon version 1.1. This
specification affects cable operator back-office functions by creating
a video distribution specification for aggregators and content
providers which lowers backend content transport and storage demands.
VP8
W3C
Specification
WAPTV -
(WapTV) originated the
WTVML (Worldwide TV Mark-up Language). WapTV has been used for the
delivery of Interactive TV applications.
WebTV HTML
WebM
project
WTVML - Worldwide TV Mark-up
Language
XML
- https://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-04-10-a.html
XMLTV
YouView
(Project Canvas) is a joint venture with BT
(British telecom)
to develop and promote a broadband enabled television platform. Project
Canvas that would allow viewers to watch on-demand services, including
the BBC iPlayer and other internet content, via television sets. Wikipedia
definition.
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