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One of the main aims of a modern knowledge society is to be able for adapting to the new demands of marketplace in time, space and form. Due to political, social and economic reasons that sublie about the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) industry, the administrations, companies and organizations have collaborated for the emission of interactive services across the DTT.

The consecration of standards about this industry —as the adoption of MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) as standard to develop interactive services (i.e., software components) in DTT— will shortly produce a new marketplace of software components where there are not yet a real methodology of development and interaction with the rest of the traditional Internet software components.

The component-based (and service-based) software engineering partly solves the "interoperability" by means of mechanisms of mediation (traders) for COTS components (commercial components). In the present project we try to generate knowledge to extend traditional trading models for MHP components: DTT interactive services.

As a result, the project expects to generate a methodology and a set of tools for the deployment of a trading service and repositories of DTT services in the company Ingenieros Alborada, S.L., which tries to create a marketplace of DTT services (software components for DTT).



Present

Due to several factors MHP has not had the expected expansion to implant in the world of interactive television and build applications using the. This has meant that large companies are developing their own technology to attempt to gain market IVT (Interactive Television).

Some of the companies involved in this niche market are Google, Yahoo, Samsung, Microsoft, LG and Panasonic are developing technology that each of them is:

Google TV
Yahoo
TV Widget
Samsung
Smart TV
Microsoft TV
LG Smart TV
Panasonic Viera
Smart TV
Philips
Smart TV














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