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Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) is an open middleware system standard designed by the DVB project for interactive digital television. The MHP enables the reception and execution of interactive, Java-based applications on a TV-set. Applications can be delivered over the broadcast channel, together with audio and video streams. These applications can be for example information services, games, interactive voting, e-mail, sms or shopping. For all interactive applications an additional return channel is needed. In computing, middleware consists of software agents acting as an intermediary between different application components. ...
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DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC...
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Deployment
By mid-2005 DVB-MHP largest deployments are in Italy (DVB-T) and Korea (DVB-S), with trials or small deployments in Germany, Finland, Spain, and Australia. The U.S. cable industry has specified its own middleware system referred as OCAP, which is largely based on MHP. Currently, Belgium's largest cable provider Telenet is rolling out their DVB-MHP system, called DigiBox. This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...
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Technology The MHP specifies an extensive application execution environment for digital interactive TV, independent of the underlying, vendor-specific, hardware and software. This execution environment is based on the use of a Java virtual machine and the definition of generic APIs that provide access to the interactive digital TV terminal's typical resources and facilities. The interoperable MHP applications are running on top of these APIs. A so-called Navigator-application, which is part of the terminal software, allows the user the access to all MHP applications and other DVB services (like TV and radio). Image File history File links Description: The image shows the software stack of the MHP platform version 1. ...
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The MHP is just a part of a family of specifications, which all base on the Globally Executable MHP (GEM)-Standard, which was defined to allow the world-wide adoption of MHP. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
DVB-HTML MHP applications come in two flavours. The first type are DVB-HTML applications. These are not very popular, partly because the specification for DVB-HTML was only completed with MHP 1.1, and partly because many broadcasters, box manufacturers and content developers find it too complex and difficult to implement. DVB-HTML applications are a set of HTML pages that are broadcast as part of a service. The spec is based around a modularized version of XHTML 1.1, and also includes CSS 2.0, DOM 2.0, and ECMAScript. A piece of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ...
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DVB-J The second, and by far the most popular flavour is DVB-J (DVB-Java) applications. These are written in Java using the MHP API set and consist of a set of class files that are broadcast with a service. DVB-Java applications are known as "Xlets". These are a concept similar to applets for Web pages that has been introduced by Sun in the JavaTV specification. Like applets, the xlet interface allows an external source (the application manager in the case of an MHP receiver) to start and stop an application. Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...
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Return channel The MHP set-top boxes may provide a backchannel for applications that wish to communicate with the outside world, for example a voting or shopping application. Typical upstream backchannels are phone line or broadband Internet connection (ADSL, using a simple ADSL modem included in the set-top box). This is the difference with zapper set-top boxes. The term set-top box describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. ...
Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks. ...
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NES Zapper TDT or satellite turner, without MHP (this last, generally includes IPTV return channel, i. ...
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The term set-top box describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. ...
NES Zapper TDT or satellite turner, without MHP (this last, generally includes IPTV return channel, i. ...
References - Ulrich Reimers: DVB, The Family of International Standards for Digital Video Broadcasting, Second Edition, 2005, ISBN 3-540-43545-X (chapter 14, MHP)
External links - OpenMHP - MHP-Open Source Project
- Sun Microsystems' Java TV
- iTVBox - MHP Research & Development Laboratory
- xleTView - xleTView, MHP-Open Source Emulator at Sourceforge
- Interactive-TV-Web - MHP/OCAP Website from Steven Morris
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