DVB Project "Re-Factors" GEM and MHP Interactive TV Specifications

International digital TV standards consortium, the DVB Project, announced Tuesday that the 80th meeting of its DVB Technical Module has "re-factored" the GEM and MHP specifications, in order to change the order of referencing between the specs, with MHP now referencing GEM rather than vice versa. The diagram below shows the relationships between the DVB Project's various GEM-related documents after the re-factoring (note: the green arrow between GEM and MHP designates the new order of referencing). The DVB Project says that it has forwarded its new GEM and MHP documents to the Joint Technical Committee Broadcast with a view to turning them into new ETSI technical specifications, and that it has published new GEM and MHP Blue Books (available on its Web site). The organization claims that MHP and GEM implementations have now reached over 33 million viewers. It says that GEM/MHP is deployed in a variety of environments, ranging from traditional DVB DTT networks in SD and HD, through to hybrid broadband-broadcast networks, and in Korea as GEM-IPTV.