R&D Projects on Personalized, Interactive TV Applications

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2. UP-TV: Ubiquitous Personalised Interactive Multimedia TV Systems and Services

The interactive time independent access to broadband multimedia information is not supported using today's networks and client systems. The idea of TV Anytime is based on the local caching of broadband media streams and allows in this way an interactive and time independent access to this information. The major objective of the UP-TV project is the development of basic technologies for scalable TV Anytime systems that implement personal TV services for business and consumer applications. The UP-TV project develops basic technologies on the one hand but also integrates two demonstrator applications and trials them in real-world environments.

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1. SICMA: Scalable Interactive Continuous Media Server Design and Application (ACTS #071)

The general aim of the SICMA project is to design a scalable server for the delivery of images, data and continuous multimedia information and to demonstrate its efficiency by applying it to a relevant application, namely the so called "Virtual Museum".

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