Web and Broadcasting Business Group F2F meeting

Overview of broadcasting standards and HTML5 - Europe

Tokyo, June 6h, 2013

Dr. Stephan Steglich

stephan.steglich@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Application Portal

Entry point, portal to start with CE-HTML based TV Apps

Introduction – Statistics

Germany ranks as the leader in online video viewing, with 45 million unique viewers watching an average of 187 videos for 19.6 hours per viewer in April (2011) - Source:Comcast

Internet-connected televisions are set to become a standard feature of European living rooms according to German trade association Source:Bitkom

Press release: Connected TVs to outsell games consoles for first time in 2011. Source:Informa Telecoms & Media

Introduction – Statistics in Germany (end of 2012)

55 % of sold devices are hybrid

More than 5 mio. connected TV sets are sold in 2012 (in average for 607 € with a downward drift)

Around 12,5 Mio SmartTVs in German households (30%)

13% of all TV sets in Germany are used for internet services

60% of SmartTVs are connected to Internet (76% of them are frequently used)

Source: GfK

Introduction – Connected TV Usage in Germany

30% watch free videoclips

18% watch free movies

15% watch catch up TV

15% search for information

15% listen to music

Source: GfK

Characteristics of TV distribution

Traditional TV

Broadcast via DVB-S/C/T

IPTV

„managednetwork“ e.g. NGN

Content is provided bynetwork provider

Quality of Service (QoSmatters)

•Sufficent bandwitdh required

•IP-Multicast (UDP/RTP) possible

•Adaptive Streaming (possible)

WebTV /OTT IPTV

„Unmanagednetwork“

(Over-The-Top)

Content and Data isprovided via Internet

•Quality of Service

•Sufficent bandwitdh

•UDP/RTP possible

•Adaptive Streaming

Mobile

Hybrid-TV

Content isdelivered byDVB-S/C/T

Device is connected tothe Internet and canconsume Services of

the Internet

German broadcast market

>90% of German broadcast market supports HbbTV with applications

on air ~ 50 currently known applications from large and small stations

Standards – HbbTV

Coverage / market penetration:

– Wide range of services deployed in Germany & France (TNT 2.0)

– „20 EBU members including RAI (Italy); RTVE (Spain); YLE (Finland); RTBF (Belgium) and NRK (Norway) agreed to deploy HbbTV services in 2012“

– Considerations overseas: USA, Japan, Australia, China, Singapore andMalaysia

Source: ibc

Analysts predict a distribution of 60 million HbbTV-capable devices by 2014

Source: infosat

Standards – HbbTV in Europe

Source: IRT – Klaus Merkel, Dec 12Seite 30

© IRT – Klaus MerkelInstitut für Rundfunktechnik HbbTV – Status und Ausblick 10.12.2012

andere Systeme

in Betrieb

angekündigt / Tests

HbbTV in Europa

keine Information

Status-Upgrade

seit Dez. 2011

HbbTV devices available in Germany

Standards – HbbTV

Das Erste Mediathek

ZDF Mediathek

Standards – HbbTV

Multithek

RTL Digitaltext

Standards – HbbTV

ARD EPG

Tagesschau

Standards

• HbbTV

• CE-HTML

• Open IPTV Forum

• W3C Web and TV

• DASH/CENC/CFF

Standards

Standards – HbbTV

Draws from other open standards

– CEA-2014 (CE-HTML)

– OIPF DAE & A/V formats

– ETSI TS 102 809

– W3C specifications

HbbTV 1.5 = ETSI TS 102 796 v1.2.1

Overview of broadcasting standards and

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Standards – HbbTV

Going forward ...

HbbTV 1.5

– Support for HTTP Adaptive Streaming based on MPEG DASH

– Common encryption to support multiple DRMs (CENC/CFF)

– API access to EPG data (EIT schedule)

HbbTV 2.0

– Requirements phase:

HTML5

2nd screen support

Broadcast-broadband synchronisation

Subtitling for IP-Video Source: IRT – Klaus Merkel, Dec 12

OutlookNext Gen TV Platforms ???

• Apple TV

• No apps (so far)

• Closed ecosystem

• Media extender for iOS/MacOS devices

• Google TV

• LiveTV, VoD, WebApps, youtube,

• google search on TV

• companion device, keyboard, mouse

• Microsoft TV -> Xbox

• LiveTV, VoD, WebApps, youtube

• Games, community

• Voice Control, Kinect gestures

OutlookNext Gen TV Technologies

• Today browsers are more than just HTML interpreter and render.

• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, A/V Codec

• Plugins (Flash, Silverlight, ...)

• HTML5 hype - Advantages of native- compared to Web-applications

decreases

• Geolocation API

• Video element

• Canvas (drawing images)

• Web Workers: spawn background workers running scripts in parallel

• Contacts API: provides access to a user's unified address book.

• Websockets

• Hardware acceleration (WebGL…)

HYBRID TV UPDATE - webinardownload: https://tech.ebu.ch/events/hybridtv-webinar

HYBRID TV UPDATE - webinardownload: https://tech.ebu.ch/events/hybridtv-webinar

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 3110589 Berlin, Germany

www.fokus.fraunhofer.de

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