DTV4ALL
This is a project funded by the European Commission to facilitate the provision of access services on digital television across the European Union. The objectives of this project are,
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Offer and evaluate mature subtitling, audio description, audio subtitling and signing services in a minimum of four territories within the European Union for at least 12 months.
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Identify improvements to existing access services and ways of addressing the key technical, organisational and legal obstacles to the sustainable take-up of these services in the timeframe 2008-2010 throughout Europe.
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Identify and prioritise key emerging access services, and the devices and platforms needed to support them for the period 2010-2012 in terms of technological feasibility, perceived value to their intended users and business model viability.
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Make recommendations regarding mature and emerging access services to bodies representing stakeholders in the access service value chain on the basis of which these bodies can take appropriate action in relevant standardisation bodies.
Project Website: http://www.psp-dtv4all.org
For more information on this project, please contact Dr Takebumi Itagaki.
