PT Journal
AU Chorianopoulos, K
   Lekakos, G
TI Methods and Applications in Interactive Broadcasting
SO JVRB - Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting
PY 2007
VL 4(2007)
IS 19
DI 10.20385/1860-2037/4.2007.19
DE Interactive Broadcasting; Interactive TV; iTV
AB Interactive TV technology has been addressed in manyprevious works, but there is sparse research on thetopic of interactive content broadcasting and how tosupport the production process. In this article, the interactivebroadcasting process is broadly defined to includestudio technology and digital TV applicationsat consumer set-top boxes. In particular, augmentedreality studio technology employs smart-projectors aslight sources and blends real scenes with interactivecomputer graphics that are controlled at end-user terminals.Moreover, TV producer-friendly multimediaauthoring tools empower the development of novel TVformats. Finally, the support for user-contributed contentraises the potential to revolutionize the hierarchicalTV production process, by introducing the vieweras part of content delivery chain.
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