The Challenge aims at highlighting the expanding range of the IPTV ecosystem
and encourages entries in any area. The following examples areas are food for
thought:
- Linear (Channel Service) Broadcast TV
- Video on Demand (VOD)
- EPG (Electronic program Guide)
- Karaoke
- Games
- E-Government (pension announcement, disaster alert, traffic news, etc.)
- E-Publishing (e-books, newspaper)
- E-Commerce (purchasing, auction, etc.)
- E-Learning (interactive)
- E-Health (tele-health, telemedicine)
- Photo albums (slide shows)
- User generated content
- Public services (digital signage, billboards, etc.)
- Fixed Mobile Convergence
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Detailed Rules for this Challenge
The Challenge is open to participants from ITU Member States (see
www.itu.int/members/index.html). Participants may be individuals, legally
established entities (profit, non-profit, academic) and public sector
organizations, though not all are eligible for the cash prize. Participants are
responsible for compliance with legal requirements of their country. Staff of
ITU and of the sponsor(s) of this Challenge as well as members of the jury are
not eligible to participate in this Challenge.
- Individuals must be of age of majority in their country at the time of
entry. Individuals may form teams and submit entries on behalf of teams.
Individuals who join teams must meet the eligibility requirements.
- Organizations must be legally established entities (profit, non-profit,
academic) or public sector organizations in their respective countries.
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Detailed Rules for this Challenge
Applications must run over ITU-T IPTV standards, either
ITU-T H.761 (2011) "Nested context language (NCL) and Ginga-NCL for IPTV
services" or ITU-T
H.762 (2011) "Lightweight interactive multimedia environment (LIME) for IPTV
services".
Any video content must be encoded using
ITU-T H.264 "Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services".
Guideline on the Use of ITU-T H.264 Format for Application Challenge is
available
here.
The file structure of the application must follow the details found in
Draft Recommendation H.IPTV-Widget "IPTV Widget Service".
A summary of the draft ITU-T H.IPTV-Widget is available
here.
How to Refer to Video Content from H.762 (LIME) Content for Application
Challenge is described
here.
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Detailed Rules for this Challenge
All submissions must be submitted in English in electronic format with DVD to
the address below via postal mail.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU/UIT)
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
ITU IPTV Application Challenge Secretariat
Place des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Only postal submissions to this address will be accepted. A submission must
be comprised of 1) a software application, 2) a description of the application,
3) a short video that demonstrates how the application runs, and 4) screenshots
illustrating the application's proposed features and functions.
The description of the application should use a description form which will
be available at
www.itu.int/challenges/iptv when the on-line registration opens (15 July
2011), and include the following information:
- Entry number (see Article 6);
- Application title;
- Description of the application, including
- How to use the application;
- What are the user benefits;
- Appealing points of the application on each evaluation criterion (see
Article 5), if any;
ITU will acknowledge receipt of the submission via email.
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Detailed Rules for this Challenge
Steering Committee for the Application Challenge
- Chairman: Masahito Kawamori, IPTV-GSI TSR Coordinator, NTT, Japan
- Wei Yun Yau, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Marcelo Ferreira Moreno, Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF, Brazil
- Nicoletta Iacobacci, European Broadcasting Union
- ITU-TSB