The Dutch Public Broadcasting, the number of services on HbbTV, a platform for interactive television, increases. So, there are applications developed for the NOS Journaal and next month the world cup.
With a tv that is suitable for HbbTV, or hybrid broadcast broadband TV, viewers via the red button on the remote control applications calls. Currently, via HbbTV Missed the Broadcast, the program guide, and the public radio stations available. The NPO adds new functionality to it: starting Tuesday, viewers can use during the NOS Journaal 20: 00 hour of footage calls that are related to the topic. In the long term should be more programs here.
In addition to HbbTV-applications for the NOS Journaal will the NPO during the world cup in Brazil, from 12 June to 13 July will be held, also experimenting with interactive content. So, viewers can additional images calls, such as replays and the highlights of a match. Also, additional information is available, such as live wedstrijdstatistieken.
The NPO will in the future also a virtual sign language interpreter to introduce. This should help children that do sign language to understand, but can not yet read. Wants to further the public service broadcasting also NPO Plus, a paid version of uitzendinggemist, support. Today, NPO Plus is still in the pilot phase.
HbbTV is in a number of European countries, such as Germany, France and Spain, all by television stations implemented. On the Dutch public channels is HbbTV available via satellite, via Canal Digital, Digital tv and a number of small kabelaars, such as Caiway. Ziggo and UPC, refuse till now to HbbTV, because ‘the red button’ is already in use by services of the company itself. Ziggo late Tweakers know that in the short term, not to the HbbTV-signal by the control on the Dutch public channels, but also because the necessary technical adjustments to be made. The NPO says in turn that it continues to try to get the big kabelaars to get HbbTV to go.
Incidentally, also offer dsl and glasvezelproviders as KPN, Vodafone and Telfort still no HbbTV. In april, secretary of state of OC&W, Sander Dekker that he saw nothing in a way for HbbTV, partly because television stations also other interactive capabilities.
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