Wednesday, March 30, 2011

W3C Issues Report on Web and Television Convergence

W3C publishes a report from the Second Web and TV Workshop, which took place in Berlin in February. The report summarizes the discussion among the 77 participating organizations and highlights some key Web and TV convergence priorities:

Adaptive streaming over HTTP
Home networking and second-screen scenarios
The role of metadata and relation to Semantic Web technology
Ensuring that convergent solutions are accessible
Profiling and testing
Possible extensions to HTML5 for Television

Prioritization now continues in the W3C Web and TV Interest Group. That group will review existing work, as well as the relationship between services on the Web and TV services. It will identify requirements and potential solutions to ensure that the Web will function well with TV.

The W3C Workshop in Berlin was made possible in part by sponsorship from Netflix, IPTV Forum Japan, and Tomo-Digi. This second Web and TV workshop was also organized with the support of the OMWeb EU project. Read the press release about the report.

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