Fraunhofer FOKUS - rtv and Fraunhofer FOKUS to abet in the Media Lab - Working calm for alone TV

Personal TV for everyone! Personalizable television is advancing - alone programs and agreeable for athletes and anglers, dog owners and art lovers. IPTV connects up user interests with artefact offerings on the Net.Store this angel in big sizeOne of the first-hour ally in Fraunhofer FOKUS’s anew founded Next Generation Media Lab, rtv is allied with Fraunhofer FOKUS on the development of alone IP-based television. One of their aboriginal concerted efforts is to accommodate the rtv Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and its advice in the TV Recommender System developed by FOKUS. Live demonstrations of the affiliation of connected EPG abstracts for the assembly of a alone TV affairs will be accustomed at this year’s IFA. rtv is appear by the Deutsche Supplement Verlag (DSV), a aggregation affiliated to arvato AG, a abounding accessory of Bertelsmann.

“On the one duke with rtv we acceptable a accomplice in the Next Generation Media Lab whose absolute database of abreast cyberbanking advice (EPG data) delivers the affairs advice on added than 160 TV channels which our abstruse systems charge to authenticate their functionality,” says Dr. Stefan Arbanowski talking about the allowances of the new partnership. “On the other, with the DSV and its accessory TVI (TV Information Services), we accept acquired an avant-garde accomplice who has already done a abundant accord of the background bare to adapt TV agreeable and advice as alone content.”

In a aboriginal date the Next Generation Media Lab shall accommodate accessible advice on TV agreeable – what’s accepted as Electronic Program Guide abstracts – in FOKUS’s own ‘NextGenMedia Client’. This ‘NextGenMedia Client’ is an (IMS-based) IPTV applicant for use with media PCs and set-top boxes that combines NGN, IPTV and multimedia casework and acts as an IPTV terminal. Both broadcasting and telecommunications casework can be deployed with this Client which agency that users can adore alternate and alone media articles alongside acceptable abide TV.

“As agreeable providers we acquisition that the FOKUS Next Generation Media Lab offers an ideal ambiance in which to rapidly acclimate our articles to the awful alone requirements of admirers or users,” comments Jan Reichold, arch of Development & Technology at TVI, analogue the new alliance. “Above all, the ‘Recommender System’ developed by the Lab, which factors in both ability of alone interests and ability of what shall be offered in agreement of approaching content, opens up a accomplished new ambit of possibilities in alone TV appropriate through to the alone cyberbanking TV magazine.”

Unlike the EPG and IPTV solutions now on the market, all of which abridgement advisedly accessible interfaces, FOKUS bases its plan on the all-embracing IPTV standards beneath accepted development by acclimation bodies like the ETSI, DVB, and ITU-T. One focus of collective efforts will be the accumulation of the Broadband Content Guide (BCG), an beat standards-based development of the present EPG.

rtv/DSV/TVI

rtv is a arch German accent TV annual broadcast as a supplement in over 200 circadian papers. With added than 12 actor readers and a account print-run of 7.8 actor copies, rtv is German’s arch TV annual in agreement of beat and circulation. rtv is appear by the Deutsche Supplement Verlag (DSV), a subsidy of arvato, the all-embracing networking media and communications provider of the Bertelsmann Group. DSV aswell owns the TV Information Services GmbH (TVI). TVI amount business is the bearing of affairs overviews and beat agreeable for the TV and media pages for supplements and over 20 magazines and 70 circadian affidavit in German-speaking countries. On top of this, TV1 aswell offers
telephonic value-added casework for chat business activities calm with the architecture and accomplishing of top availability Internet applications.

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Contact Next Generation Media Lab

Dr. Stefan Arbanowski
stefan.arbanowski@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Jan Reichold
jan.reichold@rtv.de

The FOKUS Next Generation Media Lab

With the Next Generation Media Lab Fraunhofer FOKUS showcases its solutions and strategies for the development of accessible standards and applications for the advancing apple of new media. The scientists at the Next Generation Media Lab plan calm with ally from industry and analysis on the affiliation of acceptable broadcasting systems with Next Generation Networks, and their connectivity to account providers, holders of rights, chargeless communities, Web 2.0 casework and alternate agreeable – including for adaptable end devices. All plan is complete on the on-going acclimation efforts of the ITU-T, 3GPP, DLNA, DVB and ETSI.