Philip Steven Newton

Solutions and systems for recording interactive TV

Digital TV is now being enhanced with interactivity based on such standards as Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) and Digital TV Application Software Environment (DASE). However, recording interactive DTV programme is not that straightforward as it seems. The user will expect the interactivity to still be accessible when a recorded programme is played back from storage. Due to the complexity of the iTV broadcasting, there are many problems for recording interactive TV programme. In this paper we analyze the MHP transport stream structure, describe the recording solution and storage format. Implementation system examples both for recording and playing back are depicted as well.

Opportunities for 3D on Blu-ray Disc

The introduction of various types of 3D displays, the increasing availability of tools for generating 3D content and new coding standards for 3D has created an opportunity to introduce 3D for the mass consumer market in the near future. Optical discs (i.e. DVD, Blu-ray Disc) will play a role as distribution media for high quality 3D video. For this to be a success both stereo and image plus depth will have to be supported. By building on the work done in the MPEG organization this can be achieved in a backwards-compatible way with minor adaptations to the standard and implementations.