Trender Research™

Technology meets people.

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau
Share on Facebook Share Twitter
 

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau's Page

Latest Activity

Profile Icon

Clarity - Canvas-HbbTV-TV Everywhere

Not all things are exactly what they seem...Looking deeper into the requirements, market realities and politics of Hybrid TV solutions.1. Canvas is supposed to solve a BBC "business issue" which is the exhorbitant cost associated with Re-Purposing and Re-authoring of Content to deliver over the Internet…Just look at the technology (we have to) and there lies the issue – which of the 14 Codecs, which of the multiple DRM do you select is it Video or Video and Interactivity - if the latter which…See More
Blog post by Anthony Smith-Chaigneau Nov 12, 2009
0 Comments
Profile Icon
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau commented on Brian Mahony's blog post 'Standards Emerging for Hybrid OTT Video Devices'
http://tvangelist.wordpress.com/ BLOG on all things OTT and HbbTV - Demystifying the Market Hype and the Truth about the real reasons certain intiatives happen...
Nov 12, 2009
Profile Icon
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau commented on Brian Mahony's blog post 'Standards Emerging for Hybrid OTT Video Devices'
Please read the posts at www.tvangelist.wordpress if you want the real inside informative view of HbbTV...It is just a re-hash of ATVEF, WEBTV and all the other initiatives by a renegade group who think that HTML is the answer for Interactive TV.…
Nov 12, 2009
Profile Icon
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau is now a Trender at Trender Research™ Nov 6, 2009
Welcome Them!

Profile Information

City and/or State, and Country
Vers Pont du Gard, France
Techno-Comfort Level (1=Techno-Phobe; 10=Techno-Geek)
8
Trender Status (select "Trender" unless otherwise directed)
Trender
About Me Brief Biography
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau’s professional career spans 32 years with 15 years in the British Royal Air Force as a Telecommunications and Cryptographic Systems Engineer and 17 years in Digital Communications Systems, STB Technologies most notably in the field of Open Standards for interactive Television. He is presently the DVB MHP Commercial Module Chairman and co-author of “Interactive TV Standards – A Guide to JavaTV, MHP & OCAP” published by Elsevier. ISBN: 0-240-80666-2

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau's Trender Post

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau

Clarity - Canvas-HbbTV-TV Everywhere

Not all things are exactly what they seem...Looking deeper into the requirements, market realities and politics of Hybrid TV solutions.



1. Canvas is supposed to solve a BBC "business issue" which is the exhorbitant cost associated with Re-Purposing and Re-authoring of Content to deliver over the Internet…Just look at the technology (we have to) and there lies the issue – which of the 14 Codecs, which of the multiple DRM do you select is it Video or Video and Interactivity - if the… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 1:30am

Comment Wall

You need to be a Trender to add comments!

Join Trender Research™

  • No comments yet!
 
 
 

Podcasts

Loading…

Trender Deals at Amazon.com

Internet TV Poll

Videos

  • Add Videos
  • View All

Top Tech News

Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl (AP)

Actor David Arquette arrives at DIRECTV's Sixth Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 at Victory Field in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Nekesa Moody) AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.


NFL Kicker! iPhone game gets you ready for the Super Bowl (Appolicious)

Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look up, you’ve spent half an hour devoted to kicking digital field goals. That’s far from a bad thing; rather it feels exciting to have a sports game on a mobile platform feel so immediate and gratifying.

Four of the Strangest New Video Game Controllers (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life (AP)

This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, shows of worker inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook, the social network that changed 'friend' from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market. Its debut is likely to be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file) AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.


Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)

AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)

A general view of New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Britain's for-most and largest police serviceFriday, Feb., 3, 2012. Hackers have intercepted a conference call between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard it has emerged . At the heart of the conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was a strategy aimed at bringing down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, which has launched a series of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant) AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.


Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned (Reuters)

The wreckage of the small plane flown by Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton is seen after crashing at Boise airport, February 3, 2012. The 51-year old Appleton, a three-decade industry veteran who performed stunts at airshows, died after the small plane he was piloting crashed in Boise, Idaho, where the chipmaker is headquartered. REUTERS/Brian Losness (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS DISASTER SOCIETY) Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.


Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany (AP)

AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.

Are Apple, Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies? (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market.

Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …

© 2012   Created by Brian Mahony.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service