Authors:
Irene Amerini
1
;
Roberto Caldelli
1
;
Rudy Becarelli
1
;
Francesco Filippini
1
;
Giovanni Ballocca
2
and
Roberto Borri
2
Affiliations:
1
Univ. of Florence, Italy
;
2
CSP, Italy
Keyword(s):
Digital TV, XHTML, Web browser, DVB-MHP, Set-top-box, Java.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility Issues and Technology
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Searching and Browsing
;
Social Information Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
The process of digital TV convergence, expected in Europe to the end of 2012, makes desirable to develop a system that can provide access to the Internet offering web content on a television screen. In this paper we present WebClimb, a web browser that would pursue an effective integration of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and Internet in the DVB-MHP platform. WebClimb is a Java-based web browser and enables users to browse the web interacting with an easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI), driven by a TV remote control. We explain the system architecture of this novel web browser and we evaluate the operating modes of a WebClimb prototype, over commercial digital terrestrial set-top-boxes.