The Project Canvas wiki: Homepage. Q&A: Project Canvas. The BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, has given permission for the BBC to participate in Project Canvas - an attempt to develop a standard for internet-television services in the UK. What is Project Canvas? Project Canvas is a partnership between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4 and Talk Talk to develop a common interface for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in the UK.
On 9 July, Five said they were pulling out of the scheme. IPTV allows you to access programmes via the net rather than through the air. Canvas is an attempt to replicate the success of Freeview for internet television. The partnership believes that developing a single standard will bring a new range of services in to the living room and kick-start demand for television over the internet. It has been described as "Freeview Mark two" and an attempt to converge "broadcast with broadband" whilst the BBC's director general Mark Thompson described it as a "holy grail" for future public service broadcasting. How will it work?
Content - projectcanvas.info. OFT to view Project Canvas. Following the recent criticism of the multi channel funded video-on-demand service known as Project Canvas by other media providers, such as BSkyB and Virgin Media, it now looks as if the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) may be looking into the service. Project Canvas is the next step up from the doomed Project Kangaroo. It is backed by the BBC, BT, Channel Five, ITV and TalkTalk.
The service has been looked at by the BBC Trust and yet so far no other organisation has looked into Project Canvas, until now! Before an in-depth investigation by the OFT can take place it will have to be established that Project Canvas actually qualifies to be looked at by the OFT in the first place. The current guidelines are that a service has to have a forecasted turnover of over £70 million or command twenty five per cent of the UK VoD market. The (unofficial) Project Canvas blog - IPTV, VOD, internet TV in. Project Canvas to take Freeview to another level. The fate of Project Canvas will not be decided by the BBC Trust until the end of March. This is a slow build up to a project backed by the BBC, BT, Channel Four, Five and TalkTalk, but that is the way it is when the BBC is involved in any major project.
According to financial expert Morgan Stanley, which recently produced a report for BT on Project Canvas, this is an opportunity to produce a new platform from which Freeview could launch to wider audience. But the BBC’s involvement is slowing the project down and already SeeSaw, which is based on the old Project Kangaroo, has launched from closed Beta. Even with the backing of the BBC Trust Project Canvas will not be ready until the end of the year at the earliest. It could take Freeview to another level in time. iPhone Dev Center. _threescreenreport_q109.pdf (application/pdf Object) Did You Know? "We are living in exponential times" (A Must Watch. TV and Internet use together growing in America. Virgin Media To Partner With TiVo On Canvas Killer? - ITProPorta. TiVo will be the exclusive provider of software and applications for Virgin Media according to the company's head of media relations (consumer) Asam Ahmad who was at the Ideal Home Show in London at the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre.
Speaking to Andrew Laughlin, Technology Reporter at Digital Spy, Mr Ahmad said that both companies plan to offer something that looks strangely like BBC's own project Canvas. The "new platform" - that's Ahmad's own words - will bring together VoD and TV programmes as well as "opening access to online functionality". TiVo recognised expertise in platform development means that we can expect things like integrated widgets and social networking features. Ahmad even hinted at the possibility of a Canvas competitor by saying that the platform which will be based entirely on Adobe's Flash, will be "a canvas for future services". UK / Business - Project Canvas throws open online scheme. Media - Sky hits out at BBC over web TV funding.