6 Metadata for the Consumer
New innovations offering a wider variety of communication network types to the consumer at home and a wide choice of bandwidths will change the use of content dramatically in the coming decade—already the penetration of technologies such as asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband and fiber to the home is changing things. The TV-Anytime business models inspired many application designers, and it is for that reason that this chapter takes the TV-Anytime specification as a guide. However, many other implementations follow these basic ideas.
Standards to communicate useful information from content providers to consumers are emerging rapidly, driven by major international projects such as Digital Video Broadcasting’s ...
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