Mo McRoberts wrote:
Canvas has also announced a “position of alignment” with the HbbTV initiative: http://www.iptv-news.com/iptv_news/october_09/project_canvas_cooperating_with_hbbtv_initiative And frankly, looking at the website: http://www.hbbtv.org/ …it doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence, especially as it doesn’t appear to have publicly released ANYTHING yet except a list of participants.
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HBBtv) is a service like Canvas being implemented by Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik.
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (HBB) is a group at the European Broadcasting Union looking at the harmonisation of Canvas, HBBtv, MHEG-5 IPTV, MHP, OIPTV and commercial offerings from the likes of Samsung and Panasonic. There's a brief write-up here http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech-i/ebu_tech-i_001.pdf
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