Proceedings of the Annual Digital TV Application Software Environment (DASE)Symposium 2001 (2nd): End-to-End Data Services, Interoperability and Applications. Held in Gaithersburg, Maryland on June 19-20, 2001

摘要

The second Symposium in this continuing series was held at the National Instituteof Standards and Technology. Interactive DTV combines aspects of traditional television and the Internet that inspires applications in e-commerce, e-learning, targeted advertising, video-on-demand, and enhanced viewing services. As the various standards organizations and consortiums hone their lower layer standards for interactive Digital technologies and different regions. Because of this, interest has shifted to the newly emerging middleware layer standards being developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Digital TV Application Software Environment (DASE) specialist group in the USA and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) Media Home Platform (MHP) in Europe as both an enabling and unifying technology to obtain standardized interactive Digital TV content and behavior. As these middleware layer standards traverse the balloting and acceptance process, it is important to provide more detailed and potential harmonization.