- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press (26 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0240806662
- ISBN-13: 978-0240806662
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 19.4 x 3.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,208,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This is a practical guide for students, developers and managers that will help them to build and use the standards effectively, from writing their first MHP or OCAP application to deploying a full-blown application. It makes this book an excellent and essential reference handbook for all those who are new to developing standards-based middleware for DTV and iTV." - Journal of Learning, Media and Technology
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For any digital TV developer or manager, the maze of standards and specifications related to MHP and OCAP is daunting-you have to patch together pieces from several standards to gather all the necessary knowledge you need to compete worldwide. The standards themselves can be confusing, and contain many inconsistencies and missing pieces. Interactive TV Standards provides a guide for actually deploying these technologies for a broadcaster or product and application developer.
Understanding what the APIs do is essential for your job, but understanding how the APIs work and how they relate to each other at a deeper level helps you do it better, faster and easier. Learn how to spot when something that looks like a good solution to a problem really isn't. Understand how the many standards that make up MHP fit together, and implement them effectively and quickly. Two DVB insiders teach you which elements of the standards that are needed for digital TV, highlight those elements that are not needed, and explain the special requirements that MHP places on implementations of these standards.
Once you've mastered the basics, you will learn how to develop products for US, European, and Asian markets--saving time and money. By detailing how a team can develop products for both the OCAP and MHP markets, Interactive TV Standards teaches you how to to leverage your experience with one of these standards into the skills and knowledge needed to work with the critical, related standards.
Does the team developing a receiver have all the knowledge they need to succeed, or have they missed important information in an apparently unrelated standard? Does an application developer really know how to write a reliable piece of software that runs on any MHP or OCAP receiver? Does the broadcaster understand the business and technical issues well enough to deploy MHP successfully, or will their project fail? Increase your chances of success the first time with Interactive TV Standards.
* A practical, real-world introduction to the technical elements of the OCAP and MHP standards.
* Get everything you need without wading though thousands of pages of standards- many of which don't apply to digital TV!
* Get inside concrete problems that have been found by the authors and other users - issues not generally known outside of the standards committees.
Understanding what the APIs do is essential for your job, but understanding how the APIs work and how they relate to each other at a deeper level helps you do it better, faster and easier. Learn how to spot when something that looks like a good solution to a problem really isn't. Understand how the many standards that make up MHP fit together, and implement them effectively and quickly. Two DVB insiders teach you which elements of the standards that are needed for digital TV, highlight those elements that are not needed, and explain the special requirements that MHP places on implementations of these standards.
Once you've mastered the basics, you will learn how to develop products for US, European, and Asian markets--saving time and money. By detailing how a team can develop products for both the OCAP and MHP markets, Interactive TV Standards teaches you how to to leverage your experience with one of these standards into the skills and knowledge needed to work with the critical, related standards.
Does the team developing a receiver have all the knowledge they need to succeed, or have they missed important information in an apparently unrelated standard? Does an application developer really know how to write a reliable piece of software that runs on any MHP or OCAP receiver? Does the broadcaster understand the business and technical issues well enough to deploy MHP successfully, or will their project fail? Increase your chances of success the first time with Interactive TV Standards.
* A practical, real-world introduction to the technical elements of the OCAP and MHP standards.
* Get everything you need without wading though thousands of pages of standards- many of which don't apply to digital TV!
* Get inside concrete problems that have been found by the authors and other users - issues not generally known outside of the standards committees.
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This is THE book to get started in OCAP, 16 Nov 2005
By A. W. Straub - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Interactive TV Standards: A Guide to MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV (Hardcover)
We started our OCAP project prior to the arrival of this book and had to rely on digging through all of the different, confusingly referenced, standards. Every chapter of this book caused a light bulb to click on with a big "ah ha!" Don't get started without reading a copy of this book. It's a 10 to 1 reduction in pain.
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The book you need if you are serious about IDTV, 4 July 2005
By Bernard Van Haecke "IDTV & VOD Specialist at ... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Interactive TV Standards: A Guide to MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV (Hardcover)
This an excellent book! A must have! I strongly recommend it to anyone willing to have a broad and at the same time in-depth view into the numerous concepts and APIs necessary for designing IDTV applications. Several code snippets are provided to illustrate how each API can be used: this can help save a lot of time as the DVB MHP and OCAP specs are a little bit large.
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One of the Best Technical books on Interactive TV Technologies, 27 Jun 2011
By Althos - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Interactive TV Standards: A Guide to MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV (Hardcover)
This book covers the evolution of TV middleware and the MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV industry standards. It does a good job of describing the television middleware marketplace from proprietary systems to open systems. It contains very little bias towards any system or technology. It provides some excellent descriptions of digital TV technologies (broadcast and cable TV). The descriptions on the modular components of device operating systems, applications, and application programming interfaces - APIs provide a good understanding for any professional (device designer or systems engineer). Covers how to develop television applications using HTML and Java. If you need to understand TV middleware, embedded TV device operating systems, and applications, this book is an excellent choice.
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