Interactive TV and Mobile Communications: New Dimensions for Value Added Services

Author

Florescu, Daniela ; Hasemann, Jörg-Michael

Author_Institution

T-Syst. Int. GmbH, Bremen

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

115

Abstract

Mobile telecommunication and broadcast technology converge. Western European markets for mobile handsets are saturated and mobile handsets are now commodity. Digital TV as well as is just about to become reality in many European countries. Both fields converge. Broadcast offerings will more and more reach out to mobile handsets and vice versa. In this paper we share our view on converged value added services and describe a step by step approach to mobile-broadcast converged value added services. The approach is characterised by keeping the usage barrier for consumers low and getting them gradually shifted onto a future converged platform for interactive value added TV services. A first pilot implementation of such a converged service as demonstrated in the EU IST Athena project is described

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; interactive television; mobile communication; multimedia communication; EU IST Athena project; interactive television; mobile communications; mobile handsets; multimedia home platform; multimedia messaging; value added services; Art; Broadcast technology; Communications technology; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; Europe; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia systems; TV broadcasting; Athena Project; DVB-T; Multimedia Home Platform (MHP); Multimedia Messaging (MMS); interactive TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0049-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2005.1629871

Filename

1629871