Radio and television Shengfan: Radio and television tvOS operating system will open up

Shengfan, Director of technology and standards management, science and technology Department of SARFT

In the CCBN2014 Digital television China Summit, the news and publication of the SARFT Technology and Standards Management Division director Shengfan in the speech, NGB Intelligent TV operating system will use open source in the broadcasting and television market to promote.

Shengfan said, after 10 years of development, by the end of December 2013, radio and television cable TV users have broken through 224 million, but the number of two-way users only 26 million, accounting for the total number of users 11.61%. Radio and television networks are divided into regions, a large number but no scale, business innovation is difficult to promote. At the same time, radio and television systems are also facing competition from internet TV OTT and IPTV, 4G, mobile internet field. The thinking of radio and television system is comparatively closed compared with internet enterprises, and it is obviously inferior in the competition with Internet enterprises.

The next generation of radio and television networks (NGB) over the past few years has solved the broadband access and bidirectional transformation, the standardization of the terminal intelligent, business platform and interoperability and other technical issues. In order to realize terminal intelligence, the current tvOS intelligent TV operating system has passed acceptance, 2014 will enter the promotion stage. tvOS compatible with the Android system, at the same time implanted digital TV module, operators and terminal manufacturers in the use of this system, no longer put human and material resources for the development of digital TV functions. It is said that NGB Intelligent TV operating system will use open source in the radio and television market to promote, so that the NGB terminal can be standardized and intelligent, in the current cable TV network is not integrated, to achieve the national unity or standardization of the terminal, in order to enjoy the dividends of economies of scale.

It is understood that the smart TV operating system standards are not mandatory standards, but only the recommended standards, the state will not be in the home appliance manufacturers or radio and television operators to enforce. Ministry of Industry Electronic Information Division and SARFT Science and Technology Division has set up a project joint propulsion group, will be in 2014 to promote the system. The group was added to 54 units, including the vast majority of home appliance manufacturers. Before the Radio Science Research Institute Dean Shang has revealed to Sohu it, including millet, music, Youku and other Internet video service providers are currently in contact with the SARFT, hope to jointly promote the development of intelligent TV operating system.