Multimedia Broadcasting -

Darko Ratkaj

Senior Project Manager
Technology & Innovation
European Broadcasting Union
Switzerland

Abstract:

The internet has emerged as a powerful new way of distributing media services. New opportunities were created for the providers of media content, network operators, equipment manufacturers and consumers. Innovative media services are amongst the key drivers of growth of the internet, including mobile. This presentation will address the evolution of different media services and the requirements for the delivery of these services to their respective audiences. It will elaborate on the relevant attributes of the internet as a media delivery platform in contrast to the traditional broadcast distribution approaches. In particular, both distribution models will be evaluated with respect to their advantages and drawbacks for large content providers, such as national broadcasters, and for consumers.

About the Keynote Speaker:

Darko Ratkaj is a senior project manager at the EBU's Department of Technology & Innovation where he works on technical, regulatory and policy issues related to spectrum management and media delivery technologies. Darko has been active in radio spectrum management and spectrum engineering for over 20 years, both at the national and the European level. In the domain of media technologies his interest is on media distribution models and their evolution. In particular he works with the public service media organisations on making their content and services universally available. He regularly participates in international conferences, regulatory forums such as CEPT and ITU, and maintains working relationships with broadcast and telecommunications industries, market analysts, national administrations, and the European Commission. He holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb.

Evolution trends in Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV

Prof. Pavol Podhradský

Telecommunications Department
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Slovakia

Abstract:

During last years the migration scenarios of the distribution and providing the TV services have been targeted to integration of classical broadcasting and IPTV services towards the conception of the HBB TV. The concept of HBB TV was defined by the Hbb TV consortium initiative (established in 2010) aimed at providing an alternative to proprietary technologies and delivering an open platform for broadcasters to deliver value added on‐demand services to the end consumer. The Hbb TV consortium initiative prepared and submitted within the ETSI standardisation institution the specification of standard HbbTV 1.0 and subsequently the supplements of HbbTV 1.5. The evolution trends and scenarios in this area are leading to so called Hybrid Broadcast Broadband – HBB TV technologies/services. The team of FP7 project “HBB-Next” (No: 287848, funding by EC for 2011-2014) proposed the possible evolution scenario of HBB TV. One of the main objective of the FP7 project “HBB-Next” is to create an open, web-based advanced middleware framework for seamless integration of broadcast and Internet content. Making TV viewing more community and group-driven, it is necessary to implement new features and functionalities in the environment of HBB-NEXT concept. The topics like multimodal identification, multi-factor authentication, identity management, service personalisation, as well as trust establishment, are in the scope of the “HBB-Next” FP7 project consortium research activities. The obvious ambition of the "HBB-NEXT" project consortium is also significantly participate in the next steps of the HBB TV standardization process. The activities of this research project consortium in the process of preparation of contributions for HBB TV version 2.0 will be also presented in the paper.

About the Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Pavol Podhradský, PhD., is a professor at STU Bratislava (STUBA). He was the head of Telecommunications Department of  FEI STUBA (1990–1994). He was a deputy head (2003-2006)/head (2006-2008) of the board of the State research and development programme „Building of Information Society“. He is a correspondent member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering (since 2007). In the year 2001, together with his research team, he focused his research activities to establishment of NGN Lab at FEI STUBA and since 2003 is the head of this NGN Lab and supervisir of NGNLab.eu, founded in 2006. His professional orientation: Theory of communication systems, Intelligent Networks, NGN and future networks architectures and protocols, HBB TV, Multimedia services. He has been the project local coordinator for STUBA of 3 COST research projects (1993-2005) and project leader of 10 national research projects (1990-2010). He has been coordinator/national coordinator of 4 TEMPUS Phare EC projects (1990-2003), 9 LdV EC projects (1997-2013), 1 PHARE project, 1 ESF (European Social Fund) project and further R&D and educational projects all focused on ICT. Since 2011 he is a coordinator for STUBA in the 7RP Research project HBB-NEXT. Publications: more then 150 (chapters in books, papers in journals, conference proceedings).