WWW-TV: Some tv: URI Application Scenarios
From: Michael A. Dolan (miked@tbt.com)
Date: Tue, Dec 15 1998
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981215104654.00858db0@cts.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:46:54 -0800
To: www-tv@w3.org
From: "Michael A. Dolan" <miked@tbt.com>
Subject: WWW-TV: Some tv: URI Application Scenarios
Per our telecon this morning, please add the following tv: URI application
scenarios to the official list. Note that the URI examples are meant to
further explain the scenarios by example, and are *not* necessarily meant
as a proposed syntax, or even that all these should be the same URI scheme.
1. Given the use of an HTML-like presentation language, place a tv screen
in an rendering frame, such as:
<IMG SRC=tv:>
2. Provide (1) above, but in addition specify a query mechanism into the
receiver EPG in a technology-independent manner (ie not relying on specific
ATSC, DVB, etc SI fields), such as:
tv://?program=X-Files
3. Provide (1) above, but permit network-specific tuning, such as:
tv://echostar:100
4. Provide (1) above, but permit physical layer tuning, such as:
tv://atsc:7.2
5. Provide (1) above, but be able to uniquely address authored streaming
content (video and/or audio) in a globally unique, network-independent, and
transmitter-independent manner, such as (stealing Craig's example):
bid://www.cocacola.com/new_ad_campaign/12
6. Reference discrete web content (as opposed to streaming video and audio)
being broadcast by a network, and *not* available via the internet with any
known scheme (ie HTTP or FTP), and provide a globally unique reference to it:
bid://abc.com/nightly_news/tonights_tv_enhancement.html
7. Reference standard web content that is *also* being made available and
delivered via some tv data broadcast to local cache:
http://www.wsj.com/headlines.html
Maybe some of these can be combined in a design, and maybe not. For now, I
would prefer that they remain separate scenarios in our list while we sort
through them.
Regards,
Mike
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