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YouView User Interface and Search Policy Consultation
YouView today published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover.
The policy also details YouView’s approach to allocating positions to video on demand content providers in the YouView User Interface.
YouView, on track to launch in early 2012, will bring viewers a diverse range of content and services direct to their television sets by seamlessly combining digital TV with catch-up TV, on demand services and internet-delivered applications.
A diverse range of content providers will be able to make their content available via YouView, and the YouView User Interface and Search Policy aims to ensure that positions in the YouView User Interface and search results are awarded on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. The policy has been developed with reference to the principles set out in the Ofcom Code of Practice on Electronic Programme Guides.
For more information and to view the YouView User Interface and Search Policy go to www.youview.com/industry/content/uipolicy/
YouView, a new subscription-free internet-connected TV service for the UK, today confirmed that it will have a product in trial by the end of this year, with a full consumer launch planned in early 2012.
YouView will seamlessly bring digital TV combined with the last 7 days’ catch-up TV, on demand services and interactive applications straight to the television set – subscription free.
YouView is a brand new service that will give viewers with a broadband connection integrated digital TV with 7 days’ catch-up TV, on demand and other interactive content – subscription free.
Our vision is to deliver a new TV experience that is open to everyone – content providers, device manufacturers and application developers. To make this possible, YouView is enabling an open ecosystem for all types of organisations to engage with.
You’ll find that our way of doing things is completely different, in more ways than one.
Firstly, YouView is not tethered to any single internet service provider (ISP). Anyone that buys a YouView device will be able to take it home and plug it into their choice of broadband connection and it will work.
Our unique approach also lowers the barriers to entry for all types of content providers to reach the TV screen. YouView is enabling content providers to share their content across all YouView devices. Our central search and listings engine will be available to all content providers – giving them the flexibility to support their own business model (free, pay or advertising funded), and control their own relationship with viewers.
Finally, YouView will stimulate an open market for devices giving viewers the widest possible choice at competitive prices. We’re doing this by making the YouView Core Technical Specification for launch widely available to industry and supporting device manufacturers through our device partner programme.
Consumers will be free to choose whether they get a device from a retailer or as part of a broadband package from an ISP. YouView will be supporting and promoting both a horizontal and vertical market for Connected TV devices in the UK that device manufacturers can take advantage of.
YouView will support this ecosystem by:
Creating a consistent user interface, essentially a central search listing system and navigational environment that enables viewers to simply find the programmes they love
Providing a highly flexible information (metadata) aggregation service that ensures that the journey between linear TV and on-demand content is as seamless as possible for viewers
Operating a fair, reasonable and non discriminatory listings policy
Giving open access to the final core interoperability specifications for launch that will stimulate the inclusion of new partners in the ecosystem
Contributing to common standards for Connected TV through our participation in the Digital Television Group’s Connected TV work and other industry standardisation activity
Licensing and promoting a YouView trademark that promotes a quality viewing experience
Enabling a range of content and service business models
To fully support you being part of the YouView ecosystem, we plan to update our industry zone with guidelines and technical information that you’ll need as a content provider, device manufacturer or developer. So watch out for updates or register your interest and we’ll ensure you receive news on developments directly from us.
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 Youview News 28th September 2011YouView User Interface and Search Policy Consultation
YouView today published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover.
The policy also details YouView’s approach to allocating positions to video on demand content providers in the YouView User Interface.
YouView, on track to launch in early 2012, will bring viewers a diverse range of content and services direct to their television sets by seamlessly combining digital TV with catch-up TV, on demand services and internet-delivered applications.
A diverse range of content providers will be able to make their content available via YouView, and the YouView User Interface and Search Policy aims to ensure that positions in the YouView User Interface and search results are awarded on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. The policy has been developed with reference to the principles set out in the Ofcom Code of Practice on Electronic Programme Guides.
For more information and to view the YouView User Interface and Search Policy go to www.youview.com/industry/content/uipolicy/
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 Lord Sugar to head YouView
YouView, the much-delayed VOD system proposed for the UK, is to get Lord (Alan) Sugar as its new chairman. YouView, formerly known as Project Canvas, is not likely to launch fully until next year. Delegates to the Digital TV Group’s (DTG) annual summit in London on March 4th heard that a ‘beta’ test version of YouView would probably emerge towards the end of this year.
YouView is backed by the BBC, BT, ITV and Channel 4, telco Talk Talk, Channel 5 and play-out specialists Arqiva. YouView’s first problem was with the BBC Trust which took more than a year to finally approve the BBC’s involvement (February 2009 to June 2010).
YouView’s CEO Richard Halton told delegates at the DTG event that the core technical specification would be published on April 14th to be followed by other more detailed system elements needed by product developers. He said he expected the YouView specification to form the model for similar services in other countries and regions.
However, these further delays mean the manufacturing sector is going to have to work hard to have products in retailer’s stores much before mid-2012.
Lord Sugar, the no-nonsense star of the BBC’s version of The Apprentice and the man who built Amstrad, is expected to replace Kip Meek, the current YouView chairman, and has been given the brief of knocking heads together in order to get the service back onto a dependable timetable. YouView is budgeted at £115 million(€133.4m) to cover development and launch costs and the first four years of operations. There have been widespread concerns that the ‘open standards’ used by the YouView project are anything but truly ‘open’. Investment bank Morgan Stanley, for example, sees YouView-equipped set-top boxes to likely cost anything between £150-£200 in the marketplace.
BSkyB’s ‘Anytime+’ and Virgin Media’s TiVo-based VOD services are already active, while Arqiva’s SeeSaw VOD service is also live, but reportedly up for sale. BSkyB is lobbying against the use of public cash to the disadvantage of private broadcasters, while Virgin’s CEO Neil Berkett has also been a highly vocal critic of the scheme. |
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 So When's It Coming?They haven’t quite tied down the launch date yet, but all being well it’ll be in the first half of 2011. |
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