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Objectives
We will evaluate a concept to enhance and enrich digital transmitted TV programs. The core of EDIBS consists of certain applications based on digital broadcast standards and content services utilizing these applications.
Our concept is to embed these additional services within the digital transmission stream using the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)standard for DVB set-top boxes (STB).By using common digital satellite transmission technologies,the TV- stations should be enabled to offer additional Program services and new forms of embedded advertisement within a parallel program flow.
The idea is to dynamically add narrow-or wideband streams to digital broadband TV transmission and to embed special services within the original digital broadcast stream. The required bandwidth of the additional streams could vary depending on the importance of the content and the required bandwidth of the original stream. Using this technology, content services should be transmitted which are processed by a application ,running on MHP compliant DVB set -top Boxes. Our highest effort in developing the concept focuses on the huge benefits for broadcasters as well as TV consumers.
Challenges
- Transmissio /Play-out solution via DVB /MHP
- Client MHP Application
- Content Service products.
Our final goal is to enable a TV-statio to transmit embedded video services and provide free to air all necessary applications for reception and playback to the STB.
Plan
The whole project is split into 3 phases of nearly the same intended length as we see the forthcoming amount of work in three themes covering Evaluation, prototyping and testing & proof. We estimate the duration of each phase at a little less than 3 months. There are milestones at logical result points in the middle and at the end of each phase.
Current Status
The project has been completed in December 2004 with the development of the EDIBS ECS (embedded content server) prototype and the EDIBS MHP client prototype.
