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_DVB Liaisons
The DVB Project works actively with other organisations in the area of technical standardisation for digital media. DVB shares with these organisations a goal of ensuring that industry and consumers benefit from the voluntary adoption of interoperable open standards. Some, like DVB, are involved in the creation of the specifications, whilst others focus more on encouraging the implementation of such standards.
With some sister standards fora, DVB has entered into a formal liaison arrangement, for example to enable the smooth sharing of non-public documentation. This page lists the organisations with which DVB has a working relationship. Below you can also find the text of DVB’s model liaison agreement, used as the starting point for discussion with a sister forum. Under DVB’s practice, the specifications of our liaison partners can be normatively referenced.
_Formal Liaisons
Organisation: 3D@Home
Liaison Since: November 2011
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Heidi Hoffman (FlexTech)
Scope:
The 3D@Home Consortium was formed in 2008 with the mission to speed the commercialization of 3D into homes worldwide and provide the best possible viewing experience by facilitating the development of standards, roadmaps and education for the entire 3D industry - from content, hardware and software providers to consumers. The purpose of the liaison between the two consortia is to encourage the development of standards for 3DTV, to share knowledge about 3D viewing, and to ensure that their work is complementary.
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Organisation: ATIS
Liaison Since: June 2006
DVB Contact: Muriel Deschanel (Microsoft)
Liaison Contact: Dan O'Callaghan (ATIS)
Scope:
ATIS is the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. DVB cooperates with ATIS in the development and promotion of standards in IPTV
architecture, digital rights management, content protection and copy
management, and quality of service metrics.
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Organisation: CI Plus
Liaison Since: November 2011
DVB Contact: Paul Szucs (Sony)
Liaison Contact: John Adam (Samsung)
Scope:
CI Plus is a technical specification that adds additional security and features to the proven DVB Common Interface Standard that will allow CI Plus compatible consumer electronic devices, such as integrated digital televisions and set-top boxes, access to a wide range of Pay TV services via plug-in CI Plus Modules.
Late 2011 DVB took over the responsibility for future development of the CI Plus specification, starting with v1.4.
The DVB Commercial Requirements for CI Plus v1.4 build on top of the current CI Plus v1.3 specification with two main features: support for dual-stream operation with a single module, intended for a dual-tuner PVR host, and support for DRM protected IP- delivered content.
DVB TM CI Plus Group
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Organisation: DLNA
Liaison Since: September 2005
DVB Contact: Dave Walton (Echostar)
Liaison Contact: -
Scope:
The Digital Living Network Alliance brings together companies that share a vision of a
wired and wireless interoperable network of Personal Computers,
Consumer Electronics and mobile devices in the home enabling a seamless
environment for sharing and growing new digital media and content
services. DVB and DLNA cooperate in the areas of content protection, IPTV and home networks.
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Organisation: ENGINES
Liaison Since: January 2012
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Jani Vare (Nokia)
Scope:
The ENGINES project (Enabling Next GeneratIon NEtworks for broadcast Services) aims at constituting a Task Force to support development of the Digital Video Broadcasting-Next Generation Handheld (DVB-NGH) standard. In addition, ENGINES shall provide means for the verification and validation of advanced features of the DVB-T2 and the DVB-NGH standards.
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Organisation: HbbTV
Liaison Since: February 2013
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Peter MacAvock (EBU)
Scope:
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV or “HbbTV” is a major pan‐European initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband delivery of entertainment services to the end consumer through connected TVs and set‐top boxes. The HbbTV specification was developed by industry leaders to effectively manage the rapidly increasing amount of content available targeted at today’s end consumer. It is based on elements of existing specifications including OIPF (Open IPTV Forum), CEA, DVB and W3C.
The HbbTV consortium has over 60 members including many DVB Member companies.
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Organisation: J-Ortigia
Liaison Since: October 2008
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Orazio Pulvirenti (Eutelsat)
Scope:
The J-ORTIGIA project is the follow up of the successful ESA project named ORTIGIA, focused on studying and validating the technical and related business feasibility of launching a family of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) using new satellite resources in S-band. With the financial support of ESA and Solaris Mobile, J-ORTIGIA intends to carry out on-field trials, through a real satellite link, aiming at demonstrating and optimizing the performance of the DVB-SH standard for provision of broadcasting services to vehicular and handheld terminals in a cost-effective way by the interworking of satellite systems with terrestrial networks.
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Organisation: Open IPTV Forum
Liaison Since: October 2009
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Luca Pesando
Scope:
The Open IPTV Forum was created in March 2007, to provide an IPTV solution enabling a plug-and-play experience for the end-user. This easy-to-use experience requires quite a lot of advanced techniques behind the scenes and the different players in the IPTV value chain therefore needed to have a tool to easily develop their own products to fit into the plug-and-play solution. The tool is the open standards that are created in this Open IPTV Forum.
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Organisation: Open Mobile Alliance
Liaison Since: June 2005
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Mark Cataldo (Openwave)
Scope:
The Open Mobile Alliance is an industry forum committed to the development of mobile service enabler specifications, to support the creation of interoperable end-to-end mobile services. OMA cooperates with the DVB Project on technologies related to mobile TV, particularly at the service layer above DVB-H or DVB-SH. The key DVB specification in this area is DVB-IPDC, whilst BCAST and DLDRM are the relevant specifications on the OMA side.
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_GEM Liaisons
GEM, or Globally Executable MHP, is a specification that was created by DVB to enable other organisations and content delivery systems to benefit from the DVB's open middleware standard for interactive TV, MHP (Multimedia Home Platform). For more information about MHP and GEM please visit: www.mhp.org. The organisations below have all cooperated with DVB in adopting GEM as the core of their own middleware specifications.
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Organisation: ARIB
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope: ARIB is the Japanese Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, responsible for establishing standards, cooperating with
other overseas organisations and providing for the smooth introduction of digital terrestrial television
broadcasting. GEM forms the core of the ARIB B.23 application execution engine platform.
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Organisation: ATSC
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Mark Richer (ATSC)
Scope:
The Advanced Television Systems Committee, based in the US, develops voluntary standards for terrestrial digital television broadcasting. Its middleware platform, ACAP, is closely related to the cable industry's OCAP standard, and both are based on a GEM core.
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Organisation: Blu-ray Disc Association
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope: The Blu-ray Disc Association is the group of companies dedicated to developing and promoting the Blu-ray Disc format. BD-J (Blu-ray Disc Java), which is based on GEM, is the interactive platform used to deliver advanced content and applications.
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Organisation: CableLabs
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: Christoph Schaaf (Kabel Deutschland) -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) is a non-profit
research and development consortium dedicated to developing new
cable telecommunications technologies, primarily for the North American cable industry. DVB and CableLabs cooperate closely on GEM, which is the basis of the CableLabs OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform) specification, now marketed as tru2way.
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_Other Relationships
Where a formal liaison arrangement was not deemed necessary, DVB has developed working relationships of other kinds with a range of organisations. Please note that in some such organisations have become full members of the DVB Project. See the Membership section for the full list of members.
Organisation: Digital TV Group
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope: The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for digital
television in the UK.
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Organisation: KOBETA
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope:
KOBETA is the Korean Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians Association. DVB signed a memorandum of understanding with KOBETA in November 2005. Representatives of both organisations meet regularly with a view to sharing information and knowledge.
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Organisation: Mobile Multi Media
Liaison Since: November 2011
DVB Contact: Peter Siebert (DVB)
Liaison Contact: Christian Gallard (Orange)
Scope:
After analogue switch off in November 2011, a part of UHF spectrum should be re-allocated to mobile operators for multimedia applications. So in order to harmonize standards, to avoid market fragmentation and to encourage the take-off of broadcasting, M3 (Mobile Multi-Media) project will study in which extent next generation broadcasting 3GPP (E-MBMS Evolved Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast System and/or its advanced version) and DVB (DVB-NGH Next Generation Handheld) standards could be merged. This project will in a first step analyse broadcasting ecosystems, and then propose use cases for multimedia applications and enhancements of current business models in order to guarantee the success of future deployments. In a second step, the project will study the commonalities between 3GPP E-MBMS and future DVB-NGH standards not only at the physical layer, but also at higher layers (optimisation of the service convergence). A specific point will answer how an E-MBMS frame could be embedded in a DVB-T2 Future Extension Frame, likely to carry Next Generation Handheld system.
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Organisation: WorldDMB
Liaison Since: -
DVB Contact: -
Liaison Contact: -
Scope:The WorldDMB Forum is an international non-governmental organisation whose aim is to aid the introduction of radio, mobile TV and datacasting services based on the Eureka 147 DAB system. DMB stands for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. DVB cooperates with WorldDMB at a technical level where it is of mutual benefit to do so.
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