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_DVB Liaisons
The DVB Project is just one of many organisations active in the area of technical standardisation for digital media. All of these organisations share a common goal of ensuring that both industry and consumers can benefit from the voluntary adoption of interoperable open standards. Some, like DVB, are involved in the creation of the specifications themselves, whilst others focus more on encouraging the implementation of such standards.
In the course of its work, DVB has seen a value cooperating with organisations where there is a common interest in doing so. In some cases it has been necessary to enter into a formal liaison arrangement, either to enable the smooth sharing of non-public documentation or to align IPR policies. This page lists the organisations with which DVB has some sort of working relationship.
_Formal Liaisons
Organisation: ATIS
Liaison Since: June 2006
DVB Contact: Will Dobbie (BT)
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: B21C
Liaison Since: January 2007
DVB Contact: Peter MacAvock (DVB Project Office)
Liaison Contact: Gérard Faria (TeamCast)
Scope: The B21C project, Broadcast for the 21st Century, is a multi-company task force dedicated to building on the work of the DVB Project, both in the laboratory and in field trials. B21C cooperates with DVB is in the areas of validation and testing of DVB-H, DVB-SH and DVB-T2.
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Organisation: DLNA
Liaison Since: September 2005
DVB Contact: Thorsten Herfet (Intel)
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: Mobile DTV Alliance
Liaison Since: February 2007
DVB Contact: Georges Martinez (Motorola)
Liaison Contact: Toni Paila (Nokia)
Scope: The Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium that promotes the use of open standards to deliver mobile TV services in North
America and globally. Activities include the creation of implementation guidelines for DVB mobile TV standards, particularly at the service level.
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Organisation: Open Mobile Alliance
Liaison Since: June 2005
DVB Contact: Georges Martinez (Motorola)
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: -
Liaison Contact: -
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: -
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: 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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