Digital Interactive TV and Metadata
Subtitle: Future Broadcast Multimedia
By: by Artur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, Seppo Kalli
Contributors: Niiranen, Samuli; Kalli, Seppo
Series: Signals and Communication Technology; Signals and communication technology
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781441919267; 9781475739534
Subjects: Engineering; Information systems; Computer engineering
Description: The book shows how digital-interactive television (digiTV) will affect the relation between the broadcaster and the consumer. Standardization processes, technological paradigms, and application development issues will be discussed. The emerging applications, innovations, and future concepts are described in detail. The triangle: content - end-user - technology will be conceptualized to create a vision and to overview provision of services that will be major innovative elments in the world of digital television. From the technical side, eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based metadata standards are a major element in realizing new innovative concepts in the world of digital, interactive television. This book clearly shows by the introduction of applications and use-scenarios, which conceptual requirements and metadata models are applicable, which metadata subsets are applicable due to resource limitations, which metadata aspects are needed for nonlinear content viewing, etc. The book gives a broad and detailed both visionary and technical overview useful for graduates, engineers, and scientists; and last but not least decision-makers in the broadcasting industry.
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Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: New Paradigms in Broadcast Multimedia; title: The World of Digital Interactive TV; title: The Digital Broadcast Item Methodology (DBIM); title: Innovative Use-Scenarios of the DBIM; title: Example Case Study: Personalization of TV Content; title: Conclusions and Future Developments.