Towards Next Generation Hybrid Broadcast Broadband, Results from FP7 and HBBTV 2.0
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- Author(s): M.O. van Deventer ; J.J. de Wit ; M. Guelbahar ; B. Cheng ; F.G. Marmol ; C. Köbel ; C. Köhnen ; G. Rozinaj ; B. Stockleben Source: IBC2013 Conference, 2013 page ()
- Conference: IBC2013 Conference
- DOI: 10.1049/ibc.2013.0049
- ISBN: 978-1-84919-926-1
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Conference date: 12-17 Sept. 2013
- Format: PDF
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television (HbbTV) is a widely-supported technology that enables broadcasters to run dedicated smart TV applications as a browser overlay on their TV channels. Next generation HbbTV is being developed in the EU-funded HBB-Next project, and being contributed to the standardization process of HbbTV 2.0. HBB-Next has designed and implemented several next-generation HbbTV frameworks, including multi-user identification, synchronisation between media streams and devices, multi-user recommendations, user-tailored reputation scores for applications and cloud offloading. Integrated proofsof-concepts are presented in the IBC Future Technologies zone. The HbbTV standards body has selected a wide set of features for HbbTV 2.0 in four categories: browser, terminal, companion screen and media. About 35 broadcasters, TV manufacturers, technology providers (some from HBB-Next) are actively contributing. Support of second-screen, media synchronisation, and user identity management are high on the HbbTV 2.0 features list. This paper presents the technology developments by HBB-Next and its contributions to HbbTV 2.0, with attention also to user experience and business considerations.
Inspec keywords: broadband networks; IPTV; next generation networks; media streaming; television broadcasting
Subjects: Multimedia communications; Computer communications; Television and video equipment, systems and applications; Radio and television broadcasting
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