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BBC Future Media & Technology director Erik Huggers gave a sneak preview of the work-in-progress user interface that will power the Project Canvas open IPTV standard in all its interactive, cross-platform, content-sharing pomp at C21Media’s FutureMedia conference in London on Friday and made a plea for the service to get the green light from the BBC Trust to benefit the UK content, broadcasting and TV hardware industries.
After knocking back online proposals time and time again, the BBC’s regulating BBC Trust is giving provisional approval to the corporation’s Project Canvas proposal to create a common interface for IPTV-delivered catch-up VOD and internet widgets in the living room.
The proposal has passed both the public value test and the market impact assessments carried out by the trust. The trust concludes: “The likely public value of the proposal justifies any potential negative market impact.”