Scientific co-ordinator Lyndon Nixon (MODUL University) took the opportunity of the last month of the LinkedTV project to give a presentation during the EBU Broadthinking event about Linked Television and its offer to European broadcasters to provide added value links from their TV programming to Web content. LinkedTV is now looking at industry uptake of […]
On 25 and 26 February, LinkedTV partners Noterik and RBB participated in an EuropeanaSpace workshop in Berlin. We were able to use the MultiScreen Toolkit to develop a small app to view a tour of the Berlin wall on a TV screen, with a smartphone serving as a remote control. Viewers can click a link on their phone, that acts […]
See and hear Linked Television at next month’s EBU BroadThinking 2015 event! With the recent launch of HbbTV 2.0, the SmartTV standard for broadcasters to deliver Internet based services alongside their broadcast programming, this is the perfect moment for the LinkedTV project to show broadcasters its innovative technology solution to analyse and annotate TV programs. […]
The LinkedNews scenario, driven by LinkedTV partner Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), has been released for the project’s third year with two updated approaches to viewer access and interaction with LinkedTV annotations and enrichments: (1) A mobile application: starting with a connected device such as a laptop and tablet, the viewer can choose a news programme […]
LinkedTV has been active this week in Berlin in the context of the Internationale Funk Ausstellung (IFA) – Europe’s answer to CES – and the parallel International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). European households who purchase a new SmartTV will most likely have HbbTV capability, the European standard for hybrid broadcast-broadband content delivery. HbbTV has […]
LinkedTV is pleased to be giving public demos of the Linked Television experience this month at both IFA Berlin and IBC Amsterdam! During IFA, visit our partner Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) which is part of the German public broadcasters area in Hall 2.2. From the 5 to 10 September in the “Digitales Wohnzimmer” (digital living room) LinkedTV […]
LinkedTV participated in the 4th W3C Web and TV workshop in Munich on March 13, 2014. The workshop is subtitled ‘Aligning Global Standards and what’s next for Web and TV’, and LinkedTV certainly believes a closer, more relevant convergence of TV and Web content is one of those things which is “what’s next for TV”. Currently, anything from 58 […]
On 30 May, a joint HBB-NEXT – LinkedTV meeting took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which was was attended by 15 professionals from the Dutch media industry. The reason for the shared meeting is that both projects work on similar topics and issues (Connected TV, multiple device access, contextualisation, etc) TNO, […]
LinkedTV partner, Rolf Fricke, Condat AG, has delivered a presentation during Xinnovations workshop in Humboldt University in Berlin on September 11th, 2012. It was a W3C-Workshop on HTML5 with W3C German/Austrian office and related W3C Working group members. In the presentation was explained about main objective of the LinkedTV project, which is the integration of hyperlinks […]