- From: Craig A. Finseth <fin@finseth.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:05:52 -0600 (CST)
- To: jim@nc.com
- Cc: www-tv@w3.org
Applications which are _local_ to a particular cable infrastructure, such as EPGs, often need to designate explicit channel number (and sometimes tuner) to the settop client in a Such local applications can make use of global infrastructure with no more effort than would be required to use any less-global mechanism. web page. Similarly, the settop itself may generate HTML content with explicit channel numbers. Under the tv: scheme, this would be done with tv:<chan#>. The box can use any scheme that it likes to do this -- including vendor proprietary. Just as many desktop applications require "file:" to identify local file resources, some STB content and appliations need a scheme to identify local TV resources. Actually, since it's within a box, "file:" would work quite well. Try "file:/tuner/###" or something. So are local, client-relative channels specifiable under the current URI proposal? I didn't see any examples. By analogy ... See above. Craig
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