<p>As broadcasted television is changing from analogue to digital transmission, the television industry has to adapt itself for a new reality. Digitization opens for a wide array of new ways of watching television, where interactivity and mobility are paramount. The difference in the experience lies in the interactive part, inviting the user to take part in what happens on the mobile screen. What the mobile telephone lacks in screen size it can now make up for with its interactive potential. Instead of just watching television, the user now interacts with it. As a result, the television experience can be tailored to suit consumers with different requirements. In this study I look at true-time broadcasted television to handheld devices over the standards achieved in Europe and Korea today, DVB-H and T-DMB, and how interactivity between content provider and end-user can be achieved. I also look into how metadata plays a crucial role in interactive television, and the means to utilize metadata to favor the end-users demands according to standards such as XML, MPEG and Tv-Anytime. By supplying metadata to i.e sport or reality shows, and hence creating interactivity between content provider and end-user, a new marked for television is made possible. Electronic program guides (EPGs), teletext and weather forecasts for handhelds are examples of ways that metadata can be utilized to create an interactive experience for the end-user.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-9652 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Andersen, Andreas Engen |
| Publisher | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Institutt for elektronikk og telekommunikasjon |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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