Integrated broadband environment for personalized TV experience (IBEX): implementation study and practice

Abstract

This is a continuing work on the IBEX, that is Integrated Broadband Environment for Personalized TV Experience. In this paper, we describe our implementation study of the IBEX as a TV-Anytime service platform. We also describe potential IBEX applications on the basis of TV-Anytime specifications. The Adaptive Content Guide (ACG) is expected to provide consumers with adaptive access to favorite contents and metadata customized not only for user preferences but also terminal capabilities. We also found current TV-Anytime specification lacks ability of describing terminal capabilities, which is required for universal access to the ACG.