HbbTV Announces New Steering Group Members - Sets Sights on Continuing to Build HbbTV Success on Global Basis

HbbTV Announces New Steering Group Members - Sets Sights on Continuing to Build HbbTV Success on Global Basis


GENEVA, Switzerland, May 13, 2014 /CNW/ - The HbbTV Association, a
global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the
delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and
set-top boxes, today announced the results of its recent Steering Group
elections. As part of this, the new Steering Group re-elected Klaus
Illgner as Chairman, Jon Piesing as Vice-Chairman and Mark Londero as
Treasurer. Over the upcoming two year term, the HbbTV Steering Group
will be focused on further extending the consumer benefits of hybrid
broadcast TV, ensuring continued capabilities to support new HbbTV
services and promoting its wider adoption across the world.



"HbbTV has continued to grow rapidly over the last 12 months and the
standard is now deployed on a global scale. We continue to see a very
healthy interest across the world to adopt HbbTV services and build new
applications" stated Klaus Ilgner, chair, HbbTV Association. "Our new
Steering Group has the experience, vision and determination to take
broadcast TV services to the next level. We look forward to continue
our work with HbbTV members, other standards organizations, regulatory
organizations and national TV bodies to help us continue bringing new
interactive broadcast TV to consumers across the world."



HbbTV has gained strong market traction in Europe over the last several
years and is now beginning to gain adoption internationally. The new
Steering Group aims to build on this success and focus on several key
initiatives to advance the HbbTV standard including:




-- Maintaining strong working relationships with other industry
consortia such as DASH-Industry Forum, DVB, EBU, UPnP, W3C,
ATSC, IPTV Forum Japan and DLNA to incorporate their
capabilities into HbbTV specifications;
-- Liaising with national TV bodies such as AEDETI, HD-Forum
France, DTG UK, NorDig, Hybridcast, HbbTV Forum NL and other
groups;
-- Continuing to define and extend the capabilities of HbbTV to
meet consumer needs including the HbTV 2.0 specification which
will add new features including HTML5, HEVC and companion
screen interaction;
-- Continuing to operate the organization with focused sub-groups
- including testing, technical specifications, certification,
marketing - each with mandates to implement goals approved by
the steering group



The newly elected Steering Group includes the following members:



-- Andy Hickman, Digital TV Labs
-- Bernard Fontaine, France Télévisions
-- Frode Hernes, Opera Software
-- Henry Rivero, RTL Group SA
-- Jon Piesing, TP Vision
-- John Adam, Samsung Electronics
-- Klaus Illgner-Fehns, IRT
-- Mark Londero, Sony Europe
-- Nilo Mitra, Ericsson
-- Nicolai Leymann, Deutsche Telekom
-- Peter MacAvock, EBU
-- Régis Saint Girons, httv
-- Rob Koenen, TNO
-- Steven Morris, Espial
-- Stuart Savage, LG Electronics
-- Xavier Redon, Abertis Teleco



For further information about the HbbTV Association visit: https://www.hbbtv.org/

About HbbTV Association (www.hbbtv.org)


Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (or "HbbTV") is a major global initiative
aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband delivery of
entertainment services to the end consumer through connected TVs and
set top boxes. The HbbTV specification was developed by industry
leaders to effectively manage the rapidly increasing amount of
available content targeted at today's end consumer. It is based on
elements of existing specifications including OIPF (Open IPTV Forum),
CEA, DVB, and W3C.


SOURCE ESPIAL GROUP

ESPIAL GROUP

CONTACT: HbbTV Association Contacts: 

Kirk Edwardson and Régis Saint Girons
Co-Chairs, HbbTV Marketing Group
Email: press@hbbtv.org



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