A STREAMING SYSTEM AND A TERMINAL SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCAST

Abstract

This paper describes an architecture of a streaming system and a terminal system for interactive digital television broadcast, using MPEG-4/7 technology in delivering and receiving interactive services. The streaming system complies with ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee)Digital Television Standard, and delivers data of all types in ATSC Data Broadcast specification. The streaming system provides transport streams conforming to MPEG-2 Systems, and has been implemented on the basis of software, while several parts in hardware. The terminal system is designed to provide program contents with user interactivity using MPEG-2/4/7 and XML(Extensible Markup Language). It has been developed in PC environment.