Media News - Thursday, February 21, 2008
European research project to shape next generation Internet TV
P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media
content providers and research institutions, has received a EUR 14
million grant from the European Union. The grant will enable the
conglomerate to carry out a research project aiming to identify the
potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology for Internet Television
of the future. The partners, including the BBC, Delft University of
Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University,
Markenfilm, Pioneer Digital Design Centre Limited and VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland, intend to develop a Europe-wide
‘next-generation’ internet television distribution system, based on P2P
and social interaction. The P2P-Next statement read: ‘The P2P-Next
project will run over four years, and plans to conduct a large-scale
technical trial of new media applications running on a wide range of
consumer devices. If successful, this ambitious project could create a
platform that would enable audiences to stream and interact with live
content via a PC or set top box. In addition, it is our intention to
allow audiences to build communities around their favourite content via
a fully personalized system. This technology could potentially be built
into Video on Demand (VOD) services in the future and plans are underway
to test the system for major broadcasting events. The project has an
open approach towards sharing results.’
(European Broadcasting Union via Media Network Weblog)
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