Digital Television

NoTube demonstrates a new generation of Web services for context dependent and personalized selection and presentation of TV content. NoTube shifts digital entertainment from a single-TV viewer activity to a community-based experience by sharing preferences. NoTube realizes distributed personalization in an interactive and multi-device environment, enabling TV entertainment anywhere and anytime with the ubiquitous Web.

The work in the project is steered by three visionary use cases, namely personalized semantic news, personalized TV guide with adaptive advertising and Internet TV in the Social Web.

The NoTube platform will be a Semantic Web infrastructure providing integrated content from broadcast, Web channels and social networks, as well as integrated functionality for Web service-based metadata exchange, user and context modelling, and personalised presentation generation.

Link: www.notube.tv

The project iNEM4U (Interactive Networked Experiences in Multimedia for You) develops a service infrastructure that enables users to share integrated multimedia experiences in networked environments. In iNEM4U, these experiences involve seamless combinations of multimedia content and value-added services from different domains of technology, such as the Web (i.e. YouTube), in-home consumer electronics (DLNA/UPnP), mobile telecommunication networks (i.e. IMS), and interactive digital TV (i.e. DVB-IP). This results in much richer multimedia experiences than are possible today, for instance in terms of level of interactivity, ease of use, social connectedness and availability of community aspects. From a business perspective, the iNEM4U infrastructure allows different providers to establish cross-domain business collaborations so that they can collaboratively provide iNEM4U experiences. 

Official Homepage of iNEM4U

IRT collaborates in the European research project P2P-NEXT (Peer-To-Peer Broadcasting) aiming to shape “next generation” internet TV based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology.

Further information on P2P-Broadcasting

At the crux of this project lies the convergence of DVB-T, DVB-H and WiMAX ("wireless DSL") with resource allocation for fast, scalable video and the demonstration of multimedia services on the corresponding terminals.

Further information on SUIT

WiMAC@home stands for “Wireless Media And Control at home”: in other words, management systems for stand-alone multimedia and control components in a wireless home network, based on a standard issued by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).

Further information on WiMAC