i2CAT leads a European project on hybrid TV ... - I is interesting

As reported by the Catalan club, on whose patronage is the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council, various universities and companies like Vodafone Mediapro, the project will be implemented in Spain in collaboration with Television of Catalunya (TVC) and Abertis Telecom, to provide expertise in network infrastructure and audiovisual content platforms and participate in demonstration pilots.

Audiovisual Unit Director of the Foundation, Sergi Fernandez, explained that the initiative will test several kinds of communication infrastructures and applications for connected TV, from a to compete live on a TV show to another that let see a football or Formula 1 race in multi-mode, so that the user can control the remote or tablet which camera you want to be shown “while chatting with your friends about if it is missing or not.”

“Television is coming is fully interactive, connected to the Internet and provides new transmedia formats – content available across multiple channels such as television and mobile -” where the viewer has the option of being an active agent, has highlighted.

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applications developed what is called conected TV platform using the hybrid TV (HbbTV) to push the technology standard and manufacturer independent television channel associated.

The project will create a professional forum, the Open Connected TV Forum, for all those involved – as application developers, operators and audiovisual and communications industry – to promote this global standard hybrid television, “involving Governments and manufacturers of televisions and other devices. “

challenge to achieve this hybrid TV is the creation of local communication infrastructure for efficient distribution of content, which “will lower costs for Internet content distribution, which are very high”.

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EUROPEAN PROJECTS

This is the first project led i2CAT European audiovisual, and Fernandez is a step forward in the goal of being a technology center of international reference, as it is an initiative “very ambitious aims to influence a most attractive technologies audiovisual sector “, as hybrid and interactive television.

Foundation conducted 28 European projects in 2012, significantly higher than the 16 that were implemented in 2011, which means an increase of 75%.

TV-Ring addition, the foundation leading four other projects: Sodales Mantychore and focusing on new paradigms of telecommunication network management, Irati, focused on the design of a new Internet architecture, and Fibre, which studies the experimental implementation of an infrastructure dedicated to R + D + i between Europe and Brazil.