Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-21 Thread David Tomlinson
Sorry for the duplicate post. Kieran Kunhya wrote: What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster? Standardisation, as Mo indicated, why reinvent the wheel,

Re: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer

2009-10-21 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 21-Oct-2009, at 08:42, David Tomlinson wrote: Sorry for the duplicate post. Kieran Kunhya wrote: What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster?

[backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Thompson
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

Re: [backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

2009-10-21 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 21-Oct-2009, at 10:03, Simon Thompson wrote: 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,