The BBC will remove the
MHEG requirement from the 'BBC Interactive HTML application specification, and work with industry partners to align other specifications such as the D-Book owned by the DTG (Digital TV Group), and the Freeview Play specification and Trade Mark License framework managed by Digital UK and Freeview.
Object-oriented methods are at the heart of another similar standards effort, run by the Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Experts Group (
MHEG) [20].
Ocean Blue supplied the complete middleware software solutions including DVB HD, USB PVR
MHEG MD and Talk TV software
The launch was made possible by the deployment of the connected-TV variant of MHEG--the
MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC).
When UK Free view was launched in 2002, MHEG-5 was selected because
MHEG could be built into all receiver devices in a market at a very small incremental cost.
These include the S&T Player, the RedKey 2, the TSBroadcaster 2, the TSMonitor, the
MHEG EPG and the
MHEG Presenter.
"But it's not all about IPTV - the broadcast media cannot be ignored, and the manufacturers need to source
MHEG middleware, for example, to provide complete solutions."