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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=3155",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/dialog-end-user-tests/",
"title": "Dialog+ \u2013 End user tests",
"content_html": "The improvement of speech intelligibility for broadcasting content has been an important aspect of
IRT’s work for many years. Dialog+ is the name of an additional service with enhanced speech intelligibility that
promises to at least improve the current situation. To ensure that these developments are not only valid in a lab
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"title": "HbbTV 2: Down with the language barriers",
"content_html": "On television, language barriers are reconciled by translations or subtitles. Thanks to artificial
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"title": "Audio Description via bone conduction headphones using HbbTV2",
"content_html": "People with visual impairments often need audio description when watching TV in order to understand
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together ...<p><a href=\"https://lab.fktg-media.de/audio-description-via-bone-conduction-headphones-using-hbbtv-2/\"
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together ...Read More",
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"title": "Speech intelligibility: Dialog+ via HbbTV 2",
"content_html": "Over the past several years the number of complaints from TV viewers about hard to understand dialogue
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...Read More",
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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=1568",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/irts-universal-launcher/",
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"content_html": "IRT has developed a concept which allows HbbTV apps of different broadcasters to push links to websites
or mobile apps to companion screens. These may provide additional information on a show, which viewers can retrieve
during or after. A prototype app called Universal Launcher was developed by IRT to showcase the
posibilities.\u00a0Communication between the HbbTV ...<p><a href=\"https://lab.fktg-media.de/irts-universal-launcher/\"
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posibilities.\u00a0Communication between the HbbTV ...Read More",
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"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/inter-device-synchronization-using-hbbtv2/",
"title": "\u201cInter-Device Synchronization\u201d using HbbTV2",
"content_html": "The &#8220;inter-device synchronization&#8221; feature of the HbbTV2 standard allows the playback of IP
AV streams on a mobile device in lip-sync with the broadcast TV image on the TV. One of the most important use cases for
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this is the provision of additional audio versions via mobiles and headphones, e.g. for use in a family ...Read More",
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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=820",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/the-tinkered-tv-companion/",
"title": "The Tinkered TV Companion",
"content_html": "What we&#8217;ve done We have built a companion-screen application for the children\u2019s quiz
programme &#8220;1, 2 oder 3&#8220;. The app allows children at home to play along, just like the children in the show,
using a floor pad. The floor pad uses a Raspberry PI single-board computer to connect to an HbbTV application on the ...
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...Read More",
"date_published": "2018-09-06T14:54:06+01:00",
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"name": "Christoph Ziegler",
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"Interactive",
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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=782",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/2-immerse-motogp-multiscreen-experience-with-hbbtv-2-retail-devices/",
"title": "2-IMMERSE MotoGP multiscreen experience with HbbTV 2 retail devices",
"content_html": "Partners in the EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE\u00a0have developed a platform for multiscreen services.
The architecture of the 2-IMMERSE platform has been built around the HbbTV 2 specification, mainly using the new
companion-screen protocols for app-to-app communication and inter-device media synchronisation. At the beginning of the
project there were no TV sets implementing the HbbTV-2 standard available. ...<p><a
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"date_published": "2018-08-16T07:58:16+01:00",
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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=547",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/hbbtv-application-discovery-over-broadband/",
"title": "HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband",
"content_html": "&#160; Hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) is a global initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast
and broadband delivery of entertainment services to consumers through connected TVs, set-top boxes and multiscreen
devices. The new HbbTV feature Application Discovery (ADB) over Broadband has been desgined to expand HbbTV usage to
additional market segments. The key usage mode ...<p><a
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"date_published": "2018-05-28T12:27:01+01:00",
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"name": "Thomas Schierbaum",
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"id": "https://lab.irt.de/?p=393",
"url": "https://lab.fktg-media.de/synchronised-holograms/",
"title": "Synchronised Holograms",
"content_html": "Synchronising an augmented-reality experience to a broadcast programme on an HbbTV 2 device Version 2
of the HbbTV standard, introduces several new features. Probably the most interesting set of features target at
combining mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones with HbbTV devices. These so-called companion-screen features
allow creating distributed media experiences, in the sense ...<p><a
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"content_text": "Synchronising an augmented-reality experience to a broadcast programme on an HbbTV 2 device Version 2
of the HbbTV standard, introduces several new features. Probably the most interesting set of features target at
combining mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones with HbbTV devices. These so-called companion-screen features
allow creating distributed media experiences, in the sense ...Read More",
"date_published": "2017-08-11T13:01:00+01:00",
"date_modified": "2019-01-16T14:07:18+01:00",
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"name": "Christoph Ziegler",
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