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LinkedTV @EBU_TECH on #HbbTV 2.0 for linking Television and the Web, whether #smarttv #secondscreen or #multiscreen

Published on February 23, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

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. […]

Congrats to Linked TV News, winning an honorary mention at the Design Biennial, now touring Spain and Latin America

Published on February 9, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

At the Ibero American Biennial of Design (BID) in Madrid, LinkedTV researchers Lilia Perez and Michiel Hildebrand from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, have been awarded a honorary mention in the category Digital Design for the concept and interaction design of Linked TV News. Linked TV News is a second screen companion […]

W3C reports on 4th Web and TV workshop: summary for Linked Television

Published on May 14, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

The fourth Web and TV workshop was held in March 2014 in Munich, Germany, under the theme “Web and TV Convergence: Aligning Global Standards and What’s Next for Web and TV”. To that end, the roughly 130 attendees included many representatives of both key stakeholders in the TV industry as well as regional standards organizations. […]

Presentation @W3C Web&TV workshop available: issues in linking the Web with broadcast TV

Published on March 19, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

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 […]

LinkedTV has #EDF2014 poster on #secondscreen apps enriching TV broadcasts via #LinkedData

Published on January 22, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

LinkedTV is pleased to announce its submission “Developing a second screen application for TV broadcasts enriched via Linked Open Data” has been accepted as a poster presentation at the European Data Forum 2014, in Athens, Greece, on the 19th March 2014, 6-8pm.  Increasingly, European citizens consume television content on, or with, devices connected to the Internet […]

Catch LinkedTV @ICT2013eu! The future of TV is at Stand 4C7. #ict2013eu

Published on November 5, 2013 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

ICT 2013 this week in Vilnius, Lithuania not only sees the launch of information about the new Horizon2020 programme, and offers a meet-up of over 5 000 researchers from across Europe, it is also an exhibition of the latest innovation coming out of European funded R&D. So not surprising that LinkedTV is there, in the […]

Archive content and SmartTVs: LinkedTV presenting solution @FIATIFTA Global Conference

Published on October 24, 2013 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

The FIAT/IFTA Global Conference is the annual key event for experts from the global television archives to learn about the latest developments and trends in their area. On Sunday, October 27, Johan Oomen of partner Sound and Vision will talk in the “Access & Use” track speaking on Archive content and SmartTVs. As more and more […]

Linked television in future hbbTV? Exchange of experiences and ideas in joint HBB-NEXT and LinkedTV meeting.

Published on June 7, 2013 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

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, […]

From SmartTV to LinkedTV: a vision of television in the next five years

Published on January 27, 2012 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

How will television look in 2017? This question is relevant to the Consultation Meeting of the European Commission’s research unit on Networked Media, which is planning which topics should be relevant in a call for projects to be published next year. Such projects will likely end around 2017 – five years from now. LinkedTV is […]