This work presents the development of innovative content for a low-cost Interactive Television service designed to adapt in order to cover varying content presentation and interaction requirements: from standard streamed content to new-media artwork. In this process, content, system and user complexities are introduced that need to be resolved before artwork with different requirements may be s...

The new generation of television viewers is currently being confronted and becoming acquainted with a series of technological developments in the realm of consumer electronics and gaming that raise their expectations for similar advances in TV broadcasts. The MELISA platform aims at the cross-media broadcasting of sports events featuring interactive advertising and sports-related games over dig...

Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) concerns video entertainment and represents a solution for interactive television-like services over IP-based networks. Operators and vendors are currently working on IPTV standardization efforts (e.g., ATIS/IIF, ITU-T IPTV-GSI, ETSI TISPAN) to bear wider availability and interoperability of IPTV as a secure, reliable, managed multimedia service. In thi...