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Through its Research Framework Programmes, the European Commission (EC) has contributed to the success of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) technologies in terms of research, development, cooperation and technical standardisation activities.
Overview ¦ Example Projects
MELISA: Sports fans get closer to the action – in real time
Sports
fans can now interact with their favourite broadcasts in
real time
through digital TVs and 3G mobile phones. This new infrastructure was
developed in the IST programme-funded MELISA project and provides a wide
range of services related to cross-media sports broadcasting, featuring
visual enhancements, interactive embedded advertising and sports-related
in-play services in real time. The system also ensures real time secure
transactions for betting and e-commerce, as well as service
subscriptions.
By using MELISA, viewers are fully engaged in the event and kept up to date with every development. For example, in a car race, users click on a button to access the Drivers Classification Panel to display the current drivers’ positions. In the graphical representation mode, the exact position of all cars is shown on a virtual track in real time.
INSTINCT: Bringing handheld mobile digital video broadcasting to reality
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INSTINCT is paving the way for commercial introduction of mobile broadband and digital terrestrial TV services through a single handheld device. As such it is addressing the key European policy objective in this area: digital convergence.
INSTINCT is concerned with the future commercial provision of television and TV-Like services for people on the move. It focuses on implementation of the new digital standards (DVB-T, DVB-H and DVB-MHP) and the concept of wireless communications networks (GPRS and UMTS) and how these may be combined with terrestrial DVB broadcast networks. It aims to deliver a carriergrade, fully specified and open platform for the delivery of convergent services in collaborative wireless communications and terrestrial broadcast networks.
MAMBO: Digital video broadcasting over the Net
The
development of a wireless access network by IST project MAMBO that manages
the distribution of multimedia services is bringing the convergence
of
telecommunications and digital broadcasting ever closer to fruition.
The MAMBO project developed an universal,
open, and scalable platform that manages the distribution of
high-quality interactive multimedia digital video broadcasting over the
Internet (DVB/IP) services through a terrestrial access network, to
mobile and residential end-users by an optimal allocation of the
allowable bandwidth. Besides being viable at a reasonable cost, the
network can be implemented by integrating present technologies and
commercial infrastructure.
Such results, already finding
commercial applications, should have a positive impact on:
-Television broadcasters wanting to introduce interactive television
-Mobile operators seeking to provide user access to interactive
multimedia content
-Content providers intending to offer innovative broadcast and
multimedia services by exploiting this optimised bandwidth allocation
system
-Users wanting to become more active viewers via the interactivity
dimension of the project
Last Updated December 2006