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Interactive TV Standards: A Guide to MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV

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We started our OCAP project prior to the arrival of this book and had to rely on digging through all of the different, confusingly referenced, standards. Every chapter of this book caused a light bulb to click on with a big "ah ha!" Don't get started without reading a copy of this book. It's a 10 to 1 reduction in pain.

This an excellent book! A must have! I strongly recommend it to anyone willing to have a broad and at the same time in-depth view into the numerous concepts and APIs necessary for designing IDTV applications. Several code snippets are provided to illustrate how each API can be used: this can help save a lot of time as the DVB MHP and OCAP specs are a little bit large.

This book covers the evolution of TV middleware and the MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV industry standards. It does a good job of describing the television middleware marketplace from proprietary systems to open systems. It contains very little bias towards any system or technology. It provides some excellent descriptions of digital TV technologies (broadcast and cable TV). The descriptions on the modular components of device operating systems, applications, and application programming interfaces - APIs provide a good understanding for any professional (device designer or systems engineer). Covers how to develop television applications using HTML and Java. If you need to understand TV middleware, embedded TV device operating systems, and applications, this book is an excellent choice.

A book gives good summary of the interactive middleware in the TV industry, with lots of API samples. I will recommend it to anyone investigating the ITV middleware.

Good guide for MHP and OCAP standards. It helps understand basic things of these standards

The authors give a well-written introduction as well as many insights into the design of interactive tv systems. This is a must-have for anyone new in this field. The book presents much more information than those on the interactive-mhp.org website.