Despite the growing importance of mobile connectivity, television is still the most important source for information and entertainment in people’s households. To meet customers’ demands for a converged broadcast and Web experience, many devices today are already equipped with Internet access and various technologies to access applications and services or allow companion device scenarios (e.g. using tablets and smartphones). This tutorial overviews the emerging Hybrid TV market, technologies used, current standardization activities and future trends. Furthermore, methodologies and requirements to introduce or expand existing services on TVs are layed out.

IPTV & Hybrid TV Landscape

Hybrid TV or Connected TV have become commonly used terms for TV sets capable of Internet-based applications. This tutorial deals with currently deployed proprietary as well as standardized platforms (e.g. HbbTV and OIPF) and relationships between these solutions are illustrated. In addition a categorization of commercial off-the-shelf devices and their supported services is given for participants of this tutorial.

IPTV Architecture

This part of the tutorial discusses hardware requirements and different operating systems in currently deployed and future IPTV systems and middleware. Moreover principles such as managed vs. unmanaged IPTV or native vs. Web application development are elaborated. Hereby advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches are demonstrated.

Enablers

What are common enablers for IPTV, Hybrid TV or WebTV services and how can they be integrated? This question is answered by diving into topics such as HTTP Adaptive Streaming, DRM and metadata information. Issues and limitations for new interactive services are debated and best-practices for these challenges are given.

Services

State of the art TV applications and services are explored in this part of the tutorial. Where and how can new services be published and what are potential “killer applications” in the future? This discussion will focus on the needs of content providers with existing services or plans to introduce services in this emerging Hybrid TV market. Furthermore opportunities for converged Web and TV services are discussed as well as technical challenges explained.

Level

Introductory

Prerequisites

No prequesites

Intended Audience

The tutorial is aimed at anyone interested in the convergence of broadcast and broadband, business opportunities, technical challenges and current research activities regarding IPTV, Hybrid TV and WebTV.

The ever-growing ubiquity and power of mobile devices and the trend of televisions becoming more than just dumb displays for moving images are two sides of the same coin. Both types of devices have outgrown their original purpose and are now used for tasks that previously required a PC or laptop. At the same time, users often own and use multiple devices in parallel, e.g. when watching TV or while working. Traditional application models are however focused on single devices and screens, although apps for the “second screen” have been getting a lot of interest recently.

In this tutorial we will highlight the differences and similarities of cross-platform, second-screen and multiscreen. We will furthermore explain the underlying technical challenges. Participants will also learn about design patterns for multiscreen applications, requirements and approaches that support developing cross-device and multiscreen applications.

From Cross-Platform to Multiscreen

We will introduce the concepts of Cross-Screen, Second Screen and Multiscreen apps using real-world example applications to highlight key differences between each of the regarded domains. The findings will help us to come to a clear definition of what characterizes each domain (cross-screen, second screen and multiscreen) and how they relate to each other.

Challenges for Multiscreen Applications

We will continue the tutorial with a survey on application scenarios for multiscreen and then brief the participants about technical implications and requirements that each use case introduces. Here we will examine different areas in the application lifecycle from a more technical perspective and cover several relevant topics ranging from distribution of apps across devices, discovery and synchronization to performance and security issues. We will conclude this part of the tutorial by presenting existing technical solutions in the industry, standardization bodies and current research, what solutions they bring and which gaps still remain, with respect to multiscreen app development.

Designing Multiscreen Applications

Participants will learn about differences in the design and the application model of single- and multiscreen applications. We will create a simple multiscreen application live during the session, demonstrating that developing multiscreen applications does not require a complete rethinking of traditional development workflows. We will then briefly look at how developers can benefit from an application platform or framework targeted on multiscreen applications.

HbbTV update, what is possible, what is next

Web Technologies for Interactive TV Apps

HbbTV perspectives – interaction and access

Resolving CRIDs on the Net

HTTP based streaming everywhere

Adaptive Streaming using DASH

Formatting the second screen

Content is Apps

Interaction mechanism for controlling media content

mobile interactive video during your ski holiday

Smart cities as a web of people, things and services

The Web of Things (web tech for IoT/M2M)

Smart City at T-Labs: Hamburg’s smart port logistics & webinos cross screen payment

Web Application local network service discovery

W3C standards for Multiscreen

Cross-screen Web Applications

Collaborative Working solutions for SMEs based on Web Technologies

Gesture Jam – Interactive Window Shopping using Microsoft Kinect

Stereoscopic 3D web: utilizing a 3D display in the web

How videoconference can be social, immersive and transparent?

Panel discussion: OIPF, HbbTV, W3C Web and TV, DASHIF, SmartTV Alliance

OPEN IPTV FORUM Presentation (Orange)

W3C Web & TV IG Presentation (Opera)

DASH Industry Forum Presentation (Qualcomm)

Smart TV Alliance Presentation (TP Vision)

HbbTV Presentation (HTTV)

Smart Cities, Internet of Things and Web Technologies – Implementation perspective

Expanding the Web beyond desktop and mobile to the Web of Things

Security: a key factor to make Smart Cities happening

Multiscreen collaboration to realize resilient information sharing

DASH264: Towards an Interoperable OTT Video Delivery Solution

ConnectedTV Portals: Real usage statistics of a portal provider

TV & mobile devices: just second screens?

Connected TV – Multiplayer Gaming for the whole family

SmartTV Update

Wikidata – the Wikipedia of Data

Movisto – Personalized TV Programmjan

A new view of TV everywhere: Entertainment Unbound

Implementation of a Recommendation System for Multimedia Contents in Vestel SmartTV Portal

A DVB-T-based hybrid TV portal

Top of the VODs – inspection: defects & prospects

The Changing Game of Online User Experience in a Multi-Device World