I agree, almost DTV feature need to be kept as device vendor dependent advanced feature for the time being. Specification of DTV is heavily different dependent on regions. Some region of DTV specification requests Java app implementation. Some region of DTV specification requests region specific mark up language and region specific HTML quirks, like Broadcast Markup Language(BML) in Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Markup_Language
And a lot of capabilities are protected by patents, even a trivial ui design in EPG. But I hope somehow mozilla move forward to support DTV. It was my original motivation to start contributing b2g in media area. In DTV area, almost platforms are proprietary platforms. For browser, vendor proprietary WebKit forks are used. Google TV uses android, but still have a small share and stops a new version release recently. The difference between smart phone and DTV is that DTVs require more divergence in each products than smart phone. So, it is not easy to provide full set of WebAPIs for DTV. But I belive b2g could became a common base platform for DTV. sotaro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thinker K.F. Li" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:54:41 AM Subject: Re: Web API for DTV (Digital television) From: Marco Chen <[email protected]> Subject: Web API for DTV (Digital television) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:29:53 -0700 (PDT) > Hi all, > > Recently we met some TV vendors and they plan to use FxOS as their next > generation OS on TV products. > They think web as platform is a great idea. > > But there are some gaps here including > > 1. Web API: > The full set of Web API for DTV feature. (ex: channel selection, > color system NTSC/PAL, input selection HDMI/AV/Tuner...etc) I think color system and input selection are not business of WebAPI. We should put the focus on features that Web Apps really needs. Color system and input selection and others are used only by platform dependent system Apps. I don't think we should standardize these features as WebAPIs. For Web Apps only care about how to get programme, select channel, retrieve the info of current channel, ..., and other common used features. We should left theose advanced, technologies depentent, features to the device vendors. _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
