TV-Anytime (TVA) is a technology that allows users to store TV content on local devices and share it. The Share It! project aims to develop an end-to-end system that enables easy access and transfer of personal content between local storage devices using home networks. Key objectives are to specify an implementation enabling sharing of content and metadata between friends and family, as well as innovative services combining online, broadcast, and stored content while adhering to standards. The demonstration will show connectivity between devices over various networks along with storage, playback, privacy features, and content navigation across networks.

1. TV-Anytime:
Store it on my TV
& Share it!
Ronald Tol
Philips Digital Systems Lab

2. Historic perspective
• 1995 SMASH
– basic HD recording
• 1998 STORit
– getting the right programmes
– TV Anytime concept
• 2000 myTV
– interoperable TVA solution for DVB
– standardization: TVAF, DVB, IETF, W3C, MPEG
• 2001 Share it!
– personal content sharing in home-to-home networks

3. TV-Anytime functionality
“Watch what you want, when you want”
• Simpler ways for the consumer to acquire
TV content on local storage
– click on EPG, trailer, website
• groups > programmes > segments
– series, related material
– news items, parts of programmes
• Personalisation and automatic recording

4. myTV: TV-Anytime for DVB
• Objectives
– Specify and implement a consumer platform
with built-in local storage
– Develop TV-Anytime services
– Provide true interoperability
• Partners
– CE equipment manufacturers: Philips, Nokia
– broadcasters: BBC, RAI, NOB
– technology (& service) providers: UoL, NDS
• Demonstration at IFA 2001 and IBC 2001

5. By combining TV Anytime, MHP and PVR functionalities,
myTV implemented a rich set of new functionalities
Non-stored
TVA
PVR
Standard
MHP
Stored
MHP
Standard
TVA
myTV
demo
myTV project - Overview

6. Philips myTV Platform
The complete system uses a TV Anytime enhanced DVB-S input
stream, TV Anytime IP servers, and WAP / web clients for remote
programming. Supports normal PVR functions.
myTV platforms
Nokia myTV Platform

7. • Developed/implemented content referencing and
metadata over DVB.
– TV Anytime functionality for PVRs without a back channel
– time accurate recording
– trailer recording
• Developed / implemented protocols for querying TV
Anytime servers
– accesses real broadcaster schedule information from three
different servers
myTV achievements

8. Share it! summary
Develop an end-to-end system that enables easy access to
and transfer of personal content between local storage devices
using home-to-home (h2h) networks and that enables
innovative services through a seamless combination of on-line,
broadcast, and stored content.

9. broadcast
broadband
interactive
UMTS

10. Share it! partners
Box manufacturers
• Philips
• Nokia
Technology providers
• NDS
• UoL
• Fraunhofer/Fokus
Network operators
• KPN
• Elisa
Broadcasters
• NOB
• BBC

11. Share it! Objectives
• Specify and implement an end-to-end system
• Enable easy access to and transfer of personal
content in home-to-home networks, such as a
‘Virtual Family Network’
• Enable innovative services through a seamless
combination of on-line, broadcast, and stored
content
• Contribution and adherence to standards

12. Milestones
M1 month 06 Requirements defined
M2 month 09 Box architecture described
M3 month 12 Mock-up applications implemented
M4 month 15 Actual demonstrator defined
M5 month 24 Share it! demonstration
M6 month 27 Applications/services evaluated

13. Features of a Share it! System 1/2
• Connectivity
– Internet
– Digital Video Broadcast input
– In-home network
– Removable storage? sneaker-net
• Storage (>>100 hrs broadcast quality)
• 2 record / 3 playback simultaneous (local and / or
networked)

14. Features of a Share it! System 2/2
• Privacy, security, rights and network control / management
• Multiple formats
• Networked navigation,content management and retrieval
– TV Anytime services anywhere
– Finding content in the (friends/family) network
• Send/fetch content+metadata+content references
• Downloadable services
• Mixing live/recorded content
– commercial insertion
• my Broadcast channel, my Studio, community TV ….

15. TV-Anytime phases
TVA phase 1 (1999-2001)
• To search, select, acquire and rightfully utilize material
on a local storage device
from both broadcast and on-line sources
TVA phase 2 (2001-2003)
• To transfer material between local storage devices
using home networks and exchangeable media
and to micro-navigate around the rich content

16. For more information on Share it! contact:
John Morris, Philips Research
john.morris@philips.com
http://www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/share_it/