Interactive TV standards [electronic resource] / Steven Morris, Anthony Smith-Chaigneau.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Trademarks -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Intended Audience -- Book Organization -- Versions -- 1 The Middleware Market -- Why Do We Need Open Standards? -- Driving Forces Behind Open Standard Middleware -- Standards in DTV -- Correcting the Fragmented ITV Market -- What Are DVB and CableLabs? -- The Digital Video Broadcasting Project -- DVB-MHP: The Multimedia Home Platform -- CableLabs -- OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP) -- A History Lesson: The Background of MHP and OCAP -- The MHP Family Tree -- JavaTV: A Common Standard for DTV -- Harmonization: Globally Executable MHP -- The Difficult Part of Standardization -- Intellectual Property and Royalties -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Open Versus Proprietary Middleware -- 2 An Introduction to Digital TV -- The Consumer Perspective -- Customizable TV -- Understanding DTV Services -- Producing DTV Content -- Elementary Streams -- Transport Streams -- The Multiplexing Process -- Carrying Transport Streams in the Network -- Energy Dispersal -- Error Correction -- Modulation -- Cable, Satellite, and Terrestrial Broadcasting -- Broadcasting Issues and Business Opportunities -- Subscriber Management and Scrambling -- Access Issues -- The Subscriber Management System -- The Return Channel: Technical and Commercial Considerations -- 3 Middleware Architecture -- MHP and OCAP Are Not Java -- They Are Not the Web, Either -- Working in the Broadcast World -- The Anatomy of an MHP/OCAP Receiver -- The Navigator -- Differences in OCAP -- A New Navigator: The Monitor Application -- Modules in the Execution Engine -- Architectural Issues for Implementers -- Choosing a Java VM -- Sun's JVM or a Clean-room Implementation? -- The Impact of the Java Community Process -- Portability -- Performance Issues -- 4 Applications and Application Management -- An Introduction to Xlets -- Xlet Basics -- Xlet Contexts -- Writing Your First Xlet -- Dos and Don'ts for Application Developers -- Application Signaling -- Extending the AIT -- Controlling Xlets -- Registering Unbound Applications -- Making Applications Coexist Reliably -- Pitfalls for Middleware Developers -- 5 The JavaTV Service Model -- What Happens During Service Selection? -- Abstract Services -- Managing Abstract Services in OCAP -- Registering Applications -- Selecting Abstract Services -- 6 Resource Management Issues -- Introducing the Resource Notification API -- Using the Resource Notification API -- Handling Resource Contention -- Resource Management in OCAP -- Resource Contention Before Version I12 -- Resource Contention in Later Versions -- Common Features of Resource Contention Handling -- An Example of a Possible Resource Contention Solution -- Resource Management Strategies in OCAP -- Merging OCAP and MHP Resource Management -- 7 Graphics APIs -- The Display Model in a DTV Receiver -- HScreens and HScreenDevices -- Configuring Screen Devices -- Screen Devices and Resource Management -- A Practical Example of Device Configuration -- HScenes and HSceneTemplates -- Creating.

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