[Taking this back on list as need the attention of the TV anytime guys]
LOL - If anything, I'm Ms Web Editorial - I'm a content producer with small grasp of technical stuff, who just happens to be reasonably good at translating technical stuff into useful content ideas. I've done a lot of making TV programme based content on bbc.co.uk, and a bit of thinking about data models for that.
The set-to-record from trailer is a great idea - and you're right, should be possible / doable. The problem is, i think, that CRID isn't widely used across the whole industry - i don't know if TV anytime is used by sky?
There's also a problem that somehow, the trails (BBC speak for trailer) would have to be synched with some kind of CRID broadcasting widget. I may be wrong, but I think that trails are added on a very ad-hoc basis in the transmission suite - they can be added, swapped or removed at the last second (literally!) to keep the schedules running on time, and are played in from digibeta. (This might be from harddisk these days... it's a year or two since I've chatted to anyone in TX (BBC Speak for Transmission) in the bar.)
Oy! Kingswood boys! What do you think to this, and can you explain whether the idea would work, and what the issues are, in terms I can follow?
We already have a demonstration of programme selection by trailer, using a modified Pioneer Freeview box and a transport stream containing TV-Anytime data and signalling. This was on show to the public in 2004's IBC as well as being demonstrated many times to industry (e.g. BBC R&D's Open Days this year).
There are many obstacles to getting this as a live service of course - the least of this being the way trailers are changed at last minute, but we've shown it can be done with the existing TVA standard and technology. We've also experimented with linking to the live playout system and getting triggers for trailers that way.
Hywel
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