GENEVA,
Switzerland, May 13, 2014
/CNW/ - The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to
providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and
broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, today
announced the results of its recent Steering Group elections.
As part of this, the new Steering Group re-elected Klaus Illgner as Chairman, Jon Piesing as Vice-Chairman and Mark Londero as Treasurer. Over the
upcoming two year term, the HbbTV Steering Group will be focused on
further extending the consumer benefits of hybrid broadcast TV,
ensuring continued capabilities to support new HbbTV services and
promoting its wider adoption across the world.
"HbbTV has continued to grow rapidly over the last
12 months and the standard is now deployed on a global scale. We
continue to see a very healthy interest across the world to adopt
HbbTV services and build new applications" stated Klaus Ilgner, chair, HbbTV Association. "Our new
Steering Group has the experience, vision and determination to take
broadcast TV services to the next level. We look forward to
continue our work with HbbTV members, other standards
organizations, regulatory organizations and national TV bodies to
help us continue bringing new interactive broadcast TV to consumers
across the world."
HbbTV has gained strong market traction in
Europe over the last several years
and is now beginning to gain adoption internationally. The
new Steering Group aims to build on this success and focus on
several key initiatives to advance the HbbTV standard
including:
- Maintaining strong working relationships with other industry
consortia such as DASH-Industry Forum, DVB, EBU, UPnP, W3C, ATSC,
IPTV Forum Japan and DLNA to incorporate their capabilities into
HbbTV specifications;
- Liaising with national TV bodies such as AEDETI, HD-Forum
France, DTG UK, NorDig, Hybridcast, HbbTV Forum NL and other
groups;
- Continuing to define and extend the capabilities of HbbTV to
meet consumer needs including the HbTV 2.0 specification which will
add new features including HTML5, HEVC and companion screen
interaction;
- Continuing to operate the organization with focused sub-groups
- including testing, technical specifications,
certification, marketing - each with mandates to implement
goals approved by the steering group
The newly elected Steering Group includes the following
members:
- Andy Hickman, Digital TV
Labs
- Bernard Fontaine, France
Télévisions
- Frode Hernes, Opera Software
- Henry Rivero, RTL Group SA
- Jon Piesing, TP Vision
- John Adam, Samsung
Electronics
- Klaus Illgner-Fehns,
IRT
- Mark Londero, Sony
Europe
- Nilo Mitra, Ericsson
- Nicolai Leymann, Deutsche
Telekom
- Peter MacAvock, EBU
- Régis Saint Girons, httv
- Rob Koenen, TNO
- Steven Morris, Espial
- Stuart Savage, LG
Electronics
- Xavier Redon, Abertis Teleco
For further information about the HbbTV Association visit:
https://www.hbbtv.org/
About HbbTV Association (www.hbbtv.org)
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (or "HbbTV") is a major global
initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband
delivery of entertainment services to the end consumer through
connected TVs and set‐top boxes. The HbbTV specification was
developed by industry leaders to effectively manage the rapidly
increasing amount of available content targeted at today's end
consumer. It is based on elements of existing specifications
including OIPF (Open IPTV Forum), CEA, DVB, and W3C.
SOURCE ESPIAL GROUP