For the third time, the DWX – Developer Week 2015 – took place, one of the largest independent developer conferences in Europe. More than 1.400 software developers attended the event in Nuremberg from 15th till 18th of June 2015. The participants could select among 200 sessions and 11 specialised workshops covering the latest trends and developments in the
One full-day with speakers, and TV-Ring will have 1h session about HbbTV. NPO presented the HbbTV development and showed live the second screen demo with the Eurovision Song contest. Audience about 40 people, including broadcasters (SBS, RTL), Media Industry (Ericsson, TP Vision) HbbTV developers and menbers of the HbbTV Forum etc http://www.mediaparkjaarcongres.nl/
HbbTV offers great potential for broadcasters. But even when the terminal is connected to both broadcast and broadband signals, the HbbTV Application Information Table (AIT) may not reach the terminal. The television may understand HbbTV, but perhaps it might be connected by HDMI to a set top box (STB) that does not. Or the network
Large TV-RING presence at TVX2015 TV-RING partners KU Leuven and NPO had a large presence at the 2015 ACMInternational Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and OnlineVideo (www.tvx2015.com) in Brussels: one demo, two work-in-progress posters,a workshop (with members of the Youtube User Experience team), and a fullpaper! NPO demonstrated their second-screen HbbTV application that viewers
The TV-RING project was vividly present at EBU’s BroadThinking Event in Geneva in March 2015 with two presentations, two booths and hands-on demos in the Living Labs. When EBU summoned all international experts on HbbTV and Interactive TV for 2015’s BroadThinking Event, TV-RING was featured with two presentations in the auditorium, two booths in the
Hilversum, 23rd of May In collaboration NPO (Dutch public broadcaster), RTVE (Spanish public broadcaster) and the Spanish partners of TV-Ring, i2CAT Foundation, Cellnex Telecom and CCMA-TVC organised a cross-pilot HbbTV test between the Netherlands and Spain. TV-Ring’s partner NPO leaded the test of an HbbTV App for the Eurovision Song Contest last Saturday, during the
At this year’s TVX Conference – the ACM International Conference on interactive experiences for television and online video – TV-RING partners KUL and NPO will co-organize the workshop “People, Context, and Devices: Defining the New Landscape of TV Experiences”. Together with researchers from the YouTube User Experience team, the University of Salzburg, IRT, and CWI
TV-RING Insights on Household TV and Video Consumption At the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video – or TVX2015.com, Jeroen Vanattenhoven from KUL will present the results of a study conducted in the TV-RING project. In that study, which was executed in The Netherlands, the goal was to gain an
Barry Flynn from videonet writes about TV-Ring trials with UHD content. http://www.v-net.tv/tv-ring-proves-hbbtv-can-support-uhdtv-streaming
Do you want to know more about TV-RING? New dissemination material available! TV-RING has prepared a set of new dissemination contents showcasing some of the services that have been deployed in the pilots. The first wave of videos have been prepared by NPO and PPG, showing their three services: DRM (digital rights management), Content Recommender