http://www.connectedtv.eu Talking about TV's future Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:25:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Europe's TV standards group DVB has designated GEM as its primary middleware technology in place of MHP - after standardisation body ETSI adopted it as a self-contained specification. GEM - which stands for Globally Executable MHP - was, as its name suggests, a DVB-independent derivative of MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), a ... http://www.connectedtv.eu/mhp-was-no-gem-the-jewel-in-interactive-tvs-crown-is-likely-to-be-the-internet-313/ A new cross-industry coalition - the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) - has agreed on a common file format for the distribution of digital content, promising that it will make the concept of ‘Buy Once, Play Anywhere' a reality. The idea is that the new format can be licensed by ... http://www.connectedtv.eu/studios-back-%e2%80%98buy-once-play-anywhere-with-dece-307/ The UK regulator, Ofcom, has released international comparison data showing that the UK witnessed the highest average increase in TV watching during 2008 across 11 major economies, up by 3.2% to 3.8 hours a day. Ofcom also noted that the UK remained the country with the highest proportion of households ... http://www.connectedtv.eu/higher-tv-viewing-dvrs-may-be-the-reason-310/ Widevine, a Seattle-based content security firm that offers software-based conditional access (CA) systems and DRM technology to the IP-delivered video market, has received $15m in investments from cable provider Liberty Global, Samsung's VC arm (Samsung Ventures), and an unidentified corporation it describes as "the world's second-largest satellite provider". Widevine is one ... http://www.connectedtv.eu/widevines-new-satellite-investor-points-to-the-future-for-conditional-access-306/ According to the UK's Daily Telegraph, the BBC and Microsoft have "indefinitely" postponed their plans to launch the iPlayer on the Xbox Live platform. The newspaper alleges that the cause was a disagreement over Microsoft's strategy to enable access to the iPlayer only to its premium subscribers, which would be ... http://www.connectedtv.eu/iplayer-and-xbox-game-over-309/