How Broadband is Changing Television?

How is Broadband in Changing Television?
Doug Williams
Future Consumer Applications and Services Practice
BT Technology Operations and Service

How is broadband changing television?

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NM2: New Media for a New Millennium
www.ist-nm2.org www.shapeshift.tv

Interactions with each other
TA2: Together Anywhere, Together Anytime
www.ta2-project.eu


The MyMedia Project

• Built the case for a TV
Recommendation System and
supported its procurement for
BT Vision 2.0 (Cardinal)
• Research with PhD students
explores the awkward case
– new titles

– new customers

• Exploring the value, for
recommendation purposes, of
data from:
– PVR records

– TV watching behaviour


How does broadband change television?

The MyMedia Project

interactions with the story

Interact with each other
www.ta2-project.eu



• A world-first…
• A participatory black comedy
about love for television, mobile
phone and Internet
• Text message comments drive
the love relationship between an
unlikely couple
• Combines the worlds of TV chat
and musical drama
• Broadcast 12 times on YLE TV1
in Finland during Christmas
2006
• Over 1M viewers in total, peak
per broadcast over 100,000
• “Want a happy ending? Just text
while you watch” – Guardian, 8/1/07



• A reconfigurable documentary
about the arts of the
Renaissance in England
• The viewer determines the
aspects of and approaches to
this subject which are of
particular interest
– The level of detail may be
specified as well as whether
the engager is more
interested in, say, painting
than music
• The continuous, full screen
programme is dynamically
ShapeShifted during playback,
and can last between 15 and
120 minutes. Developed and tested by Illuminations as part of
the NM2 project.


• An interactive personalised
news application for broadband
TV
• Viewers’ preferences expressed
in a simple online profile
• ‘MyNews’ section offers a short,
up-to-date programme
containing only news stories
which are of interest to the
viewer
• All stories can be dynamically
ShapeShifted during playback
– “More content”, “Related Developed by K3 (Malmo) as part of the NM2
stories” project. Installed with the Swedish national
broadcaster (SVT) for a live trial in May 2007.
– “More or less time”


Tools and workflow – an aside



The MyMedia Project


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www.ta2-project.eu

easier
communications and
engagement among
groups of people
separated in space
and time


www.ta2-project.eu

• Design
– A shared experience


www.ta2-project.eu

• Design
• IP based
• Technology • Low delay
– Better Audio • Echo-free
• Supports double talk
• Natural
• Surround sound


www.ta2-project.eu

• Design
• IP based
• Technology • Low delay
– Better Audio • Echo-free
• Supports double talk
• Natural
• Surround sound
Making the case for HDvoice:
- Conferencing
- IP Exchange

www.ta2-project.eu

• Design
• Multi HD cameras
• Complex composition
• Technology
– Better Audio • Low delay
– Better Video • Video tap for analysis
• Seamless switching
• Active crops
• IP based
BT w ork
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- Video calling on the S
- Vendor relationships
trials
- Consumer acceptance

www.ta2-project.eu

• Design
– A shared experience “It’s like a virtual
director calling the
• Technology
– Better Audio
shots”
– Better Video
– Better representation

The world’s first multi-camera
videoconference with an automatic
‘virtual director’
(Video)


• It’s the interactions (stupid)
– With the schedule
– With the story
• Shapeshifting Media (YouTube Video)
– With each other
• Storytelling (YouTube Video)
• Orchestration (YouTubeVideo)


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