The BBC have given a prowler view of the Project Canvas Live Internet tv standard, and its looking good. Erik Huggers, the BBC hereafter Media & Technology conductor showed a demo to the C21Media conference in London today.
The demo showed a the new IPTV standard in all its interactive, cross-platform resplendency and showed how the Beijing Olympics would look on Canvas.
Also announced was the reabsorb of the iinstrumentalist with social content-sharing features, a newly developed Nintendo Wii player app and an intuitive multimedia search facility for bbc.co.uk.
If Canvas fails, he argues, broadcasters would shoulder additional costs of reformatting new devices. “There could be a horizontal level playing field of operations for everyone and I think that’s worth fighting for.” Update: The BBC contacted us to point out that this is only a demo of what inhabit could expect from a Canvas product and is by no ways the ruined article.
Canvas looks great and whether it continues in its present incarnation or not, the technology will live on in other forms.
Although we and other websites of repute have been impressive everyone that the great public will soon be watching and surfing the Internet in their living room/ Many have been skeptical.
Despite the efforts of many including AOL TV and WebTV Networks for many get on, there has never been a big take up of the new technology.
The biggest TV manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Vizio say that they’re poised to revolutionize television this Christmas shopping season: They’re about to launch the first major selling push for a new generation of sets that can easily integrate Web content with traditional TV news and entertainment — without the fuss of connecting the TV to a set-top box.
The run could be risky. Consumers may balk if TV sets become too computerlike and complicated. Manufacturers are in a race with cable companies and gadget providers — including makers of DVRs, Blu-ray players and game machines — who offer alternative ways to blend the Internet with TV.
As they catch on, television will become “a completely new ballgame,” says Matthew McRae, general theatre director of ripe technology products at Vizio. software system developers will stack to the new platform, making Web TVs “the next area of innovation” following computers and cellphones, he says.
With the financing of so many big names and the fact that as with nicam stereoscopic photograph and widescreen. Soon every tv will come internet enabled, this has to be the time of internet tv’s coming.