TV-Anytime Forum News

• 22 March 2004: TV-Anytime will be joining with the pro-MPEG Forum and the AAF Association at NAB 2004 (17th - 22nd April) mounting an "Interoperability Campus" presentation suite.  A half-hour presentation will be made each morning and afternoon, and members will be on the stand to handout collateral material.

• 03 October 2003: TV-Anytime is pleased to announce publication of its specifications by the Broadcast division of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). TV-Anytime Phase 1' "Broadcast and On-line Services: Search, select and rightful use of content on personal storage systems" is published by ETSI as a series of eight parts covering "Benchmark Features", "System Description", "Metadata", "Content Referencing", "Delivery of Metadata over a bi-directional network" and "Bi-directional Metadata Delivery protection". Individual copies of the technical specifications are available for free download from ETSI's website: http://www.etsi.org. Select "Get a Standard" and then type "TV-Anytime" in the search box. The Technical Specifications are numbered TS 102 822-1...TS 102 822-7.

• 02 September 2003: The TV-Anytime Forum (TVAF), in cooperation with the Pro-MPEG Forum and the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association, is co-sponsoring the must-see Interoperability Centre at IBC 2003. The Centre (Stand 3.101) is located in a room of its own in Hall 3 of the Amsterdam RAI. For more details, see the IBC press release.

• 18 August 2003: This week's issue of DIFFUSION Online, a web news publication of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), features an article on the new TV-Anytime standard. The article can be found at the EBU's website www.ebu.ch.

• 11 August 2003: The next meeting of the TV-Anytime Forum is confirmed for Tuesday 30th September - Friday 3rd October 2003, and will be preceded by an Implementers and Developers Event (IDE) on Monday 29th September 2003. The venue for both the IDE and Meeting will be Microsoft in Mountain View, CA, USA. Details are now available on the Meeting Page.

• 30 July 2003: The TV-Anytime Forum hosted their first Implementers and Developers Event (IDE) on Monday 28th July 2003 at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The event preceeded the 23rd meeting of the TV-Anytime Forum taking place at the same venue Tuesday 29th July - Friday 1st August 2003. The IDE presentations are now available for download on the Presentation Page.

• 04 July 2003: The next meeting of the TV-Anytime Forum is confirmed for Tuesday 29th July - Friday 1st August 2003, and will be preceded by an Implementers and Developers Event (IDE) on Monday 28th July 2003 (Agenda). The venue for both the IDE and Meeting will be the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Details are now available on the Meeting Page.

• 30 April 2003: The TVAF Board of Directors has accepted the offer of the Pro-MPEG Forum to participate in their Interoperability Centre at IBC 2003. As at IBC 2002, the Pro-MPEG Forum Interoperability Centre at IBC 2003 will be in a “meeting room” which is built on the floor of Hall 3 of the RAI convention center. The TVAF expects to have two demonstration units in the Interoperability Centre at IBC, as we did at NAB2003. Read more details about the TVAF @ IBC 2003.

• 17 April 2003: The TV-Anytime Forum (TVAF) did again exhibit at NAB 2003, April 7-10, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. TVAF co-sponsored the Interoperability Center, along with the Pro-MPEG Forum and the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association. The presentations are now available for download on the TV-Anytime Forum Presentation page. Read more details about the TVAF @ NAB 2003.

• 29 January 2003: The TV-Anytime Forum (TVAF) kicked off its 21st meeting in Provo, Utah with the election of the board during which all former board members were re-elected. Simon Parnall of NDS UK remains TVAF chairman with vice-chairmen Skip Pizzi (Microsoft), Watarau Kameyama (Waseda University) and Christian Bertin (France Telecom) completing the TVAF board. Mr. Kameyama also acts as secretary, Mr. Bertin's second function is being the TVAF's treasurer.

• 19 November 2002: The TV-Anytime Forum (TVAF) kicked off its 20th meeting in Sydney with an Orientation Session for some 20 newcomers attending this first gathering of the TVAF in the southern hemisphere. The agenda for the orientation session covered all aspects of Phase One of the TVAF specifications and also lead the way towards Phase Two which will be one of the main aspects of work at the 20th meeting. The Orientation Session presentations are available for download on the TV-Anytime Forum Presentations page.

• 06 September 2002: Tribune Media Services (TMS) has created a TV-Anytime data file for a hypothetical 50 channel cable system. The file contains 14 days of information and is updated daily. It includes all fields in the TMS database that map to the TV-Anytime schema. For a limited time only, TMS is making this data available to all TVAF members free of charge. For details about how to gain access to these data, please see WD602.zip.

• 30 July 2002: The 2nd TV-Anytime Implementers Workshop was held July 29, 2002, at EBU in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop was immediately followed by the 18th meeting of the TV-Anytime Forum taking place at the same venue from July 30 to August 2, 2002.

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