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TY - JOUR
T1 - Converged digital TV services
T2 - the role of middleware and future directions of interactive television
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanuel
AU - Cosmas, John
AU - Aggoun, Amar
AU - Loo, Jonathan
N1 - Copyright © 2009 Emmanuel Tsekleves et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The subject of the future of the interactive Television medium has become a topic of great interest to the academic and industrial communities particularly since in the recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the pace of innovation of convergence of digital TV systems and services. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of what we know as digital TV converged services, to present and categorise the digital Television middleware technologies that contributed to it, and to present possible future trends and directions. A new Television era of converged wireless and mobile content delivery, user-authored content, multimodal interaction, intelligent personalisation, smart space awareness, and 3D content sensations is foreseen, creating ambient and immersive experiences.
AB - The subject of the future of the interactive Television medium has become a topic of great interest to the academic and industrial communities particularly since in the recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the pace of innovation of convergence of digital TV systems and services. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of what we know as digital TV converged services, to present and categorise the digital Television middleware technologies that contributed to it, and to present possible future trends and directions. A new Television era of converged wireless and mobile content delivery, user-authored content, multimodal interaction, intelligent personalisation, smart space awareness, and 3D content sensations is foreseen, creating ambient and immersive experiences.
U2 - 10.1155/2009/643680
DO - 10.1155/2009/643680
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2009
JO - International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
JF - International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
SN - 1687-7578
M1 - 643680
ER -