2. Peter MacAvock DVB-T Conference Lisbon, Portugal 17-18 February 2000 Multimedia Home Platform DVB

3. INTERACTIVE DVB-S DVB-MS DVB-MC DVB-C DVB-T B-ISDN, ASDL, PSTN, GSM PC DVB in the Home

4. Today’s “Horizontal” Markets Platform 1 API 1 Service Provider 1 Appl. 1... Appl. 2Appl. 3 Service Provider 2 Appl. 4... Appl. 5Appl. 6 API 2 Platform 2 Service Provider 3 Appl. 7... Appl. 8Appl. 9 API 3 Platform 3 API: Application Program Interface

5. Future “Horizontal” Markets Multimedia Home Platform Implementations on different HW Platforms (Low-Cost STB to High-End PC) "Horizontal Markets" Service Provider 1... Appl. 1Appl. 2Appl. 3 Service Provider 2 Appl. 4... Appl. 5Appl. 6 Internet Appl. a... Appl. z... Multimedia Home Platform API..

6. MHEG HAVi JavaTV Windows CE DVB MHP DVB MHP Windows CE 1999 Start Line Convergence The DVB Multimedia Home Platform 2000 Over 250 companies supporting MHP Rationale behind MHP...

7. MHP Building Blocks I/O HardwareCPU MPEG ProcessingGraphics Transport Protocols Virtual Machine Control Application (Navigator) APIs Applications System Software "MHP API" Broadcast Channel Interaction Channel

8. MHP Key Commercial Requirements Interoperability Scalability, Extensibility Upgradability Separation Data and Applications Support for CA Systems Open Standards

9. MHP Application Areas and Profiles Enhanced Broadcast Interactive Services DVB Java API extensions for interactivity Broadcast Transport Protocols Interactive Transport Protocols "HTML" subset *) Internet Access Java APIs for Internet access HTML 4.0, ECMA script, DOM, CSS,... Still under discussion DVB Java APIs Java VM

10. DVB MHP timescales èSB19 (10 December 1997)Approval of Com. Requirement èSB27 (9 November 1999)Approval of MHP Declaration èTM36 (27 January 2000)Approval of draft MHP 1.0 èCM15 (16 February 2000)Endorsement of draft MHP 1.0 èSB28 (22 February 2000)Approval of MHP 1.0 (?) èFirst demonstrations of “MHP-like” systems at IFA ‘99 èDemonstrations of MHP at NAB ‘00 (April 2000), IBC ‘00 (September ‘00) èAlso demonstrations from many DVB members at CeBIT, CES, etc.