Middleware for Digital TV: It's the intermediate software layer that allows the development of interactive applications for Digital TV, regardless of the hardware platform used by set-top box manufacturers.
Ginga: It’s the specification for the intermediary software layer standard (middleware) developed for the Brazilian Digital TV System by Puc-RJ and UFPB.
Interactivity Component: This is the term created by TQTVD to classify each and every application sent by the open Digital TV signal that allows the user to interact with the application using the receiver’s remote control.
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Rio de Janeiro, March 07, 2008
Sun and the SBTVD Forum announce partnership.
Joint action between the OEM and the Digital Terrestrial Brazilian TV System Forum (SBTVD) creates solution in Java open code to develop interactive applications.
Sun and the Digital Terrestrial Brazilian TV System (SBTVD) Forum have just announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), joining efforts to develop an open code content platform, based on Java technology for interactive applications for Digital TV. Within 90 to 120 days a solution should be published on the www.ginga.org.br site, where the Brazilian system middleware is hosted.