Influencing Standards
On Mar. 2, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced that on Feb. 23, the nation's smart TV platform was selected as an ITU Recommendation for Integrated broadcast-broadband system.
The ITU-T Recommendation for standards means that the local industry is actively seeking to participate in the competition for global smart media standards. Local technologies for smart media broadcasting platforms are expected to greatly contribute to local companies' global market penetration.
Standards for smart TV platforms are based on next-gen web standard HTML5, which can be used in all kinds of devices for broadcasting and media, including Internet, cable, terrestrial, and satellite broadcasting.
Currently, Japan's Hybridcast standard and Europe's Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV standard were adopted as ITU Recommendations for new Integrated Broadcast & Broadband (IBB) systems.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) members have worked to develop standards in order to provide IBB systems since April 2012. The MSIP and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) submitted a technical report in November last year to include the nation's smart TV platform standard in one of the ITU-T Recommendations for standards. The smart TV platform standard was approved as a new standard at a meeting in Geneva last month.