IPTV will be Harmonized with New Measures

The Open IPTV Forum is an industry wide initiative that has a mission to develop an end-to-end solution to meet the demand for, and the widespread deployment of IPTV services, which is being seriously held back by interoperability among products.

The Forum has now managed to form what it believes to be a viable agreement and has announced that several detailed system and protocol specifications for Release 1 have been finalized at its meeting in Berlin last week.

It is strongly hoped that the specifications will vastly speed up deployment of IPTV networks and devices that inter-operate, while also allowing for future development and growth.

The result, they believe, will be an invigorated system that can attract users to IPTV with ease of use and wider services.

The specifications will seek to harmonize many features for a more collaborative industry which in the end will benefit companies and consumers alike.

The specification will encompass Audio/Video Media Formats, Content Metadata, and Protocols for Home Network, User-Network and Network-Network interfaces, Declarative Application Environment, Procedural Application Environment and finally Content and Service Protection.

It seems obvious that the more these protocols can be harmonised, the more widespread IPTV use can become and the more practical deployment will be on a larger scale.