RE: AICI: Focus
From: Jan van der Meer (jan.vandermeer@ehv.ce.philips.com)
Date: Thu, Nov 05 1998
Message-Id: <01BE08AE.75F3DB80.jan.vandermeer@ehv.ce.philips.com>
From: Jan van der Meer <jan.vandermeer@ehv.ce.philips.com>
To: Henning Timcke <henning.timcke@werft22.com>, "'Aaron E. Walsh'" <aaron@mantiscorp.com>
Cc: "AICI (E-Mail)" <aici@toocan.philabs.research.philips.com>, "SMIL@w3c (E-Mail)" <www-smil@w3.org>, "WWW-TV (E-Mail)" <www-tv@w3.org>, "'secretariat@davic.org'" <secretariat@davic.org>, "Larry Masinter (E-Mail)" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, "Philipp Hoschka (E-Mail)" <ph@w3.org>
Cc: "'risk@cybermedic.org'" <risk@cybermedic.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:21:39 +0100
Subject: RE: AICI: Focus
Dear all,
Just for your information. DAVIC currently works on what they call "TV
Anytime" and "TV Anywhere".
The objective of "TV Anytime" is to specify download of broadcast programs
to a Set Top Box with local storage capabilities for play back at a later
time. Download should be possible over (MPEG-2 TS based) Broadcast and over
IP.
The objective of "TV Anywhere" is to specify real-time delivery of
broadcast services over IP (e.g. to enable that you can even to watch your
favourite program abroad). DAVIC decided already to use MPEG-4 audio and
video as the content format for those services, but the transport format is
still subject to discussion.
I hope this clarifies a bit.
Kind regards,
Jan van der Meer