DVB and HbbTV liaison

Dear all,

Please see below a draft liaison to send to DVB. I have updated the HbbTV letter based on Alex's comments on yesterday's conference call, and also applied them to the DVB draft. Thank you also to Jean-Pierre for your feedback..

Please let me know if you have any comments or suggested changes by the end of Thursday, as I would like to submit both letters on Friday.

Many thanks,

Chris (WG Chair)

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I write on behalf of the W3C TV Control Working Group, which is currently developing the TV Control API specification [1]. This specification aims to provide a way of sourcing broadcast and IPTV delivered media (including both TV and radio) into a HTML5 browser for TV and set-top box devices. The API is closely integrated with HTML5 and the web platform in general, enabling TV and radio media access e.g. through available tuners and playback through the familiar <video> and <audio> element interfaces. It also provides access to program information (EPG), program recording and playback, parental control, emergency alert events, and triggered interactive overlays.

For consistency with other web platform APIs, the TV Control API builds upon existing W3C work, such as WebRTC MediaStream, and the Working Group is currently working to align the API better with the rest of the web platform, and to bring a higher level of abstraction that is less coupled to specific device implementation details than the current published Editor's Draft.

We hope the TV Control API can become a useful reference for future TV devices. We would like ask whether this is of interest to you, and to invite DVB members to join the Working Group to further the standardisation of the API. The expertise that DVB participation would bring would be of great value to our group.

The Working Group's current charter ends on 31 March 2017, so we are now starting rechartering discussions. By end of January 2017 we expect to submit an updated charter and timelime to W3C management for approval. To those DVB members who are also W3C members, we ask for your support in re-chartering of the group after March 2017.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/tvcontrol-api/


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Received on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 12:54:16 UTC