February 25, 2008

Europe funds internet TV standard

_44445249_europeer-bbc203.jpg According to the BBC, the European Union is spending 14m euros (£10.5m) to create a standard way to send TV via the net.

"An additional 5m euros (£3.7m) is being contributed to the project by 21 other partners including the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union.

The project will create a peer-to-peer system that can pipe programmes to set-top boxes and home TV sets.

It will be based on the BitTorrent technology many people already use to share movies and music.

Dubbed P2P Next, the four-year research project will try to build a system that can stand alongside the other ways that broadcasters currently get programmes to viewers."

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