IPTV, or Internet-Based TV broadcasting is going to significantly change the way people obtain information, get entertainment, and possibly collaborate with each other. Compared with today’s TV system, IPTV gives the viewers more choice as to what to watch and how to watch, and allows users to broadcast their own programs easily, thus “democratizing” information broadcasting. To realize the vis...

In this paper, we propose the broadcasting data structure that can clip the requested scene or information in the TV program, and that can reconstitute the TV program depending on review environment or the purpose. As a result, this mechanism enables users to use the clipped broadcasting contents for various purposes.

This paper presents a description of an interactive satellite TV based mobile learning (STV-ML) framework, in which a satellite TV station is used as an integral part of a comprehensive interactive mobile learning (M-Learning) environment. The proposed framework assists in building a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective environment to meet the growing demands of M-Learning all over the world...

This paper presents a description of an interactive satellite TV based mobile learning (STV-ML) framework, in which a satellite TV station is used as an integral part of a comprehensive interactive mobile learning (MLearning) environment. The proposed framework assists in building a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective environment to meet the growing demands of M-Learning all over the world,...

Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...

Inter-destination media (play-out) synchronization for social TV has gained attention from research and industry in recent years. Applications include social TV and interactive game shows. To motivate further research of inter-destination synchronization technologies, pilot measurements of play-out differences in different TV-broadcasting systems are desirable. However to our knowledge no broad...

Broadcast Technology No.45, Summer 2011 ● C NHK STRL Versatile Functions of Digital Broadcasting Japan's TV broadcasting is going completely digital. This exhibit introduced various unique features that allow viewers to get the most from digital services, along with their supporting technologies and VHF-band Mobile Multimedia broadcasting, which is scheduled to start after analog broadcasting e...