Next week's EBU BroadThinking 2012 seminar will showcase a number of cutting edge demonstrations showing some of the exciting services that become possible when broadcast and broadband come together. Demos will include second screen and multiscreen applications, Hybrid TV and Hybrid Radio, MPEG DASH and P2P-Next. Registrations are still being accepted for the two-day event in Geneva on 28 and 29 March.
With lots of buzz around second screen applications, two of the demos planned will focus on how broadcasters can make the most of these new technologies. Belgian-based company Small Town Heroes will show their solution for closing the loop to integrate the second screen web applications back into the TV production workflow. By using the same native web technologies, realtime data generated by viewers can be visualized in the TV studio.
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A joint demo from Spain's abertis telecom and Swiss company NAGRA will show how the use of cloud-based services can enable free-to-air broadcasters to quickly deploy affordable multiscreen TV services. In addition to showing TDT.COM, the free catch-up and video-on-demand service currently run by abertis telecom in Spain, the two companies will demonstrate how HbbTV can be used to bring complementary pay-TV services to linear content.
Other demos will include the latest tools developed by the EBU for delivering Hybrid Radio services and an MPEG DASH live video channel playout, as seen recently at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The conference programme for BroadThinking, with the unifying theme of "managing end-to-end", will cover the current state of the internet broadband network, video distribution techniques over the broadband network, second screen and multiscreen technologies, and the future of the broadband internet network.