The “father” of the MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione now aims to create a specification based on open source software and standards that will accelerate the rise of Web-ready televisions.
The OCTV is an effort under his Digital Media Project, an industry group founded by Chiariglione in 2003.
The OCTV project wants to accelerate the development of a market of products, content, services and applications designed to enrich one-way TV services with interoperable multichannel 2-way content access and delivery.
But OCTV won’t develop a complete product…instead only the spec and an industry-grade software platform that implements that spec for commercial products and services.
Of course, the big multinational companies in connected TVs each prefer their own proprietary solution, in the hopes they can lock up a market in iTunes-style.
The DMP will work with ITU-T to review proposals.