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Frage an die Technik – Kenner. Namentlich EM: Nach meinem Kenntnisstand unterstützt die Mbox 1000 den MHP Standard und Java. Obwohl MOT / GI und SFA schon Millionen von Boxen verkauft haben, gilt dies vorwiegend für den amerikanischen Markt. Das heißt eben nicht mit dem europ. MHP Standard ( oder sog. „rest of the world standard“ vgl. Posting 23.01.01 13:05:19 @ Thread: David Mbox: Gut im Rennen gegen die Goliaths Nokia, Panasonic, Microsoft usw. ? ) sondern lediglich die US – Standards OCAP etc. erfüllend. --------------------------------------------------------------- dazu Auszüge: Kollision der iTV Standards: USA / Msoft u.a. & OCAP vs “rest of the world” & MHP Toward MHP "Europe is more advanced than America in developing open standards", says Jean Marc Racine, CEO of Canal Plus U.S Technologies, which offers the Media-Guide middleware. "Because European interactive TV increasingly is based on DVB-MHP, [the Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform], European content creators can produce interactive content once and know it plays on any DVB system." Standardizing U.S. set-top boxes for national retail sales, as required under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, has been the job of Cable Television Laboratories`OpenCable initiative. The U.S. specification for a digital-cable box offering more channels was completed two years ago. Delaying retail boxes has been the push to develop a removable point-of-distribution (POD) smart PCM card for conditional access. POD cards will be given to new subscribers when a box is sold at the local cable company offices, or with a truck roll. Last summer, POD cards by Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta were "verified interoperable" by CableLabs, technically meeting the federal deadline for a retail-ready box by summer. But it may be at least one year before certified OpenCable boxes appear in stores, if the one-year cycle for certifying retail DOCSIS cable models applies. The presence of a removable POD-card slot is the key difference between the OpenCable boxes made for sale in retail channels and the OpenCable boxes being made for rental through traditional cable channels. A standardized national box is useless for interactive TV, however, unless it can "plug and play" the interactive applications and content selected by diverse cable operators across the country. A move toward standardizing interactive-TV software was taken in September when CableLabs announced that Sun Microsystems, Liberate and Microsoft were selected as primary authors of the new OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), a middleware software specification. This work is proceeding with support from the Society of Cable Television Engineers. For OCAP, Sun is licensing its Java and JavaTV as the execution engine in the programmable application program interface environment. Liberate and Microsoft are developing an ATVEF presentation engine, like a Web browser, using standard Web markup and scripting languages such as HTML and ECMAScript. The bridge between the two engines will be a Document Object Model (DOM) that lets the Java EE access all the HTML and JavaScript objects in the PE environment. Once OCAP is completed, expected by late December , interactive-TV application vendors wanting their interactive content to play on OpenCable boxes (retail or rental) will need to conform to OCAP. Yet the OpenCable/OCAP boxes support the ATSC version of digital television, so the boxes will not be salable outside America where DVB rules and MHP is gaining ground. { = > auch große US – Anbieter haben also nicht o. w. Zugang zum europäischen Markt. Auch sie müssen sich zunächst MHPmäßig anpassen } MHP products shown at the 2000 International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, for example, included electronic program guides, interactive sports, interactive games, personalized advertising and home-shopping systems. "We are purposefully trying to find where our approach can overlap the DVB-MHP developments in Europe," says Don Dulchinos, vice president of advanced platforms and services at CableLabs. " But MHP will not become a formal part of OCAP." There may be some Java-based applications that run on both OpenCable and MHP platforms, he said, "but I don`t think there will ever be one global standard for interactive television content." ( Zitatende ) ---------------------------------------------------------- = > Daher meine Frage an die DVB / MHP – Spezialisten. Wie wahrscheinlich ist es, dass US – Anbieter schnell ( Sommer 2001 ) MHP kompatible Settops entwickeln + fertigen ? Welche Rückschlüsse zieht ihr im Hinblick auf einen Vorsprung von MHP – Heimatmarkt Anbietern ( also nicht USA Firmen ) wie etwa PACE, Netgem, Pan, MBX usw. Thx im voraus Gruß pd |
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| aus der Diskussion: | Deutsches Konsortium |
| Autor (Datum des Eintrages): | Placido-Domingo (19.02.01 16:28:37) |
| Beitrag: | 67 von 115 (ID:2937943) |
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