Participation to technical standards
The Advanced Television Systems Committee is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite and semiconductor industries.
ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to providing leadership for, and the rapid development and promotion of, worldwide technical and operations standards for information, entertainment and communications technologies using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees and Incubator Solutions Program.
The Centre for Content Protection (CCP) is a consortium of industry stakeholders dedicated to the advancement of secure digital media distribution in Asia Pacific. The Centre serves as a neutral clearinghouse of information on standards and innovation throughout the region. The CCP works to identify and promote effective technological solutions for digital media content protection. Launched in 2007 the organisation's members comprise of content producers, content protection companies, other industry groups and/or academia serving its overall mandate to promote content protection.
Members of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network made up of consumer electronics, PCs and mobile devices in the home and on the road. DLNA works to enable a new, more compatible digital environment in which digital media can be easily accessed and enjoyed, regardless of who made the devices.
The consumer experience will be further enhanced because many mobile multimedia devices can also manage and distribute content to other devices.
DLNA has a growing membership of 245 leading companies in the consumer electronics, computing, mobile device and content service provider industries.
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 270 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services.
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is a new cross industry group of global stakeholders formed to define new industry standard to enable a new consumer experience for digital media with enhanced digital flexibility and content accessibility, to deploy a cloud service that facilitates compatibility across multiple digital distribution services and devices.
DECE intends to make online sell-through of films, TV and other digital content as ubiquitous and compatible.
ETSI produces globally - applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies(ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio,converged broadcast and internet technologies. It is officially recognized by the European Commission as a European standards Organization. It is therefore used by many other groups as a final "step" in their specifications development.
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The FLO Forum is a multi-company initiative committed to advancing the global standardization of FLO technology. Composed of industry-leading organizations, the FLO Forum works to develop products and services, based on FLO technology, that enable the delivery of advanced multimedia services to wireless consumers. The FLO Forum is organized to promote the global standardization of FLO technology, including compliance and certification benchmarks for the technology.
The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industry initiative with the purpose of producing end to end specifications for IPTV in order to take the next generation of IPTV into a mass market service. The forum, which is fully open to participation across the communications and entertainment industries, will focus on development of open standards that could help to streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies, and help to maximize the benefits of IPTV for consumers, network operators, content providers, service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and home and network infrastructure providers.
China Digital Right Management Forum ( ChinaDRM) was established on 24th, Nov, 2004. The leading units are CCTV and Tsinghua university and supported by SARFT. The members of ChinaDRM forum are main stream content providers, such as CCTV (China Central TV Station), SMG (Shanghai Media Group), CNR(china national radio), CRI (China Radio International), BTV (Beijing TV Station) etc. ; main stream technical providers, such as SONY, Panasonic, Thomson, Intel, Philips etc.
The tenet of ChinaDRM forum is to promote DRM technology for China market, protect participant’s rights in publish chain of digital media, create good ecosystem for content distribution and consume environment. ChinaDRM forum put more attention to application requirements, solutions, technical standards, development strategies of DRM as well as relevant issues on state digital media development; monitor technical movements on international DRM, promote cooperation and communication among members, construct good digital media environment for right management.
ChinaDRM forum manages 5 subgroups, such as content production, content distribution, home networks, mobile TV, IPT
China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) is a mobile TV technology in China, The main feature of CMMB are:
1. Provide services of digital broadcasting TV programs, integrated information and emergency broadcasting, realize seamless coverage with both satellite and terrestrial networks.
2. Support handset, PDA, PMP, MP3, MP4, Digital camera, notebook as well as small size terminals which can play audio, video, data, multimedia on card, train, ship or aircraft.
3. China owned intelligence propriety, can be upgraded step by step according to operational need, support broadcasting and two-way services.
4. Support central and regional operational architecture, support uniform standard and uniform operation, support roaming and service protection.
5. Secure, reliable, flexible, can match fast development of mobile multimedia broadcasting technologies.
The SD Card Association is an open industry standards organization established in January 2000 by Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), SanDisk and Toshiba, and is supported by a consortium of over 1,200 companies. The SDA's mission is to set industry standards and promote SD Memory Card acceptance in a variety of applications. SD Memory Card standards are currently being built into a wide range of digital products such as cellular phones, audio players, automotive multimedia systems, handheld PCs and digital video and still cameras.
As a direct representative of global and European standardization efforts (through the ISO and CEN respectively), the Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV) is Switzerland's interface with various other national and international standards networks. In this capacity, the SNV performs key liaison functions between the experts of standardization and the users of standards in the SNV's areas of activity. The SNV's main activity is standardization. National, European and international standards are developed in co-operation with users. This process is to ensure that the standards will generate permanent benefits. Furthermore, SNV offers with its SNVshop a centralised purchasing and information source on standards and related products.
