Abstract

MARTINEZ P, Antonio. MHP: an oportunity for the TV-Internet convergence. uct [online]. 2005, vol.9, n.34, pp.70-74. ISSN 1316-4821.

Current digital technology is mature enough to widen the traditional television (limited to the reproduction of contents) with computational capacity to run multi-media allowing to incorporate richer formats. Multi-media Home Platform (MPH) is a standard of the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVD) project which intends to combine digital television (DTV) with Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). The result will convert the television distribution net into an interactive multipurpose communication net available to consumers and the industry. It is expected that once it is fully implemented, MHP will operate through cable, optic fiber and non-guided means (including satellite systems). Users will have access to supplementary information of the audiovisual contents, watch and, in some cases, participate in television programs, shop on line, select properties in configurable contents (language, camera angle and particularized advertisement) and even navigate through the Web. This paper shows the results of a research based on an exhaustive, systematic and rigorous inquiry of various documents related to the MHP standard.

Keywords : Diffusion; Digital Television DVB; MHP; MPEG.