--Organization Says it May Work on Standardizing Internet TV Technology for CE Devices
The DVB Project, an international standards consortium comprised of around 280 broadcasters, network operators, vendors, regulatory bodies and other TV industry players, announced Monday that it has begun a "study mission" on Internet TV content delivery, that will investigate technology options for delivering what it describes as "DVB-type content" over the Internet to a broad range of consumer electronics devices, including game consoles, mobile devices and PC's. While the study mission will focus primarily on content delivery, the DVB says, it will also explore other aspects of Internet TV delivery, including codecs, security and metadata.
According to the DVB, the study mission will gather information from experts in the field of Internet content delivery, in order to "ensure a wide and comprehensive consideration of technology options and the most accurate evaluation against some high-level evaluation criteria." In order to facilitate this process, the organization has published a questionnaire on its Web site, through which subject matter experts will be able to provide information on relevant existing technologies, services and solutions. It says that the questionnaire is "open to many types of Internet TV content delivery technologies" and that it is encouraging "the submission of descriptions and background material of solutions and technologies" from both DVB members and others. It stresses that "the questionnaire does not intend to select any of the submitted technologies during the study mission, but is looking for background and deployment experience in generic Internet TV content delivery solutions." Based on the results of the questionnaire, the DVB says, it "may or may not standardize a suitable Internet TV technology for CE devices." The questionnaire is available at: http://www.dvb.org/news_events/news/internet-tv-questionnaire/index.xml
