Position paper on integrated broadband environment for personalized TV experience (IBEX)

As a next step towards the integration of TV and the Web environment, we started a new project on integrated broadband environment for personalized TV experience (IBEX). This is a position paper on IBEX describing an architectural overview of future multimedia environment. The IBEX project also intends to provide a service model for the TV-Anytime framework. The concept of the IBEX features three major viewpoints towards the future TV experience. To release audience from time constraint scheduled by broadcasters is the first target. Then to get seamless and adaptive access between TV and the Web environment from anywhere in the world is also important. In addition, such TV experience is to be securely personalized for individual audience. In order to achieve open framework, these viewpoints must be properly developed in conjunction with well-organized data models and system architecture based on de facto standard technology. The IBEX will provide a prototype system model built on upcoming integrated broadband digital TV infrastructure.