Radio and television requirements OTT set-top box installation tvOS system

SARFT recently issued a notice, decided to expand the tvOS Intelligent TV operating system in the cable operators in the pilot range. In the future, OTT set-top boxes and other terminals issued by cable operators should be installed using TVOS1.0 software and not install other operating systems except tvOS.

Led by the Canton Institute of Intelligent Television Operating system tvOS 1.0 version since the official release of the 12 end of 2013, this March, the early in Jiangsu Wired and Oriental Wired launched a pilot promotion work.

SARFT new radio and television issued (2014)149 notice at the same time stressed that the successful development and release of TVOS1.0, for the protection of three nets to integrate cultural security, supporting the digital, networked, intelligent development of radio and television, is of great significance.

The notice request, each CATV network company should face the corresponding actual network, the business and the security management demand, looks at the broadcast television terminal standardization Intellectualization, vigorously carries out the TVOS1.0 scale application experiment.

In the experiment, the cable television network company buys or integrates the research and development and installs the intelligent television set-top box terminal, should install uses the TVOS1.0 software, may not install except tvOS other operating system. At the same time should follow NGB the next generation of radio and television network related technical specifications.

149th Notice requirements, the cable television network companies in the promotion of TVOS1.0 application process should be timely summary of successful experience and methods, timely report to the General administration of Science and Technology department related work progress. The general administration will summarize the successful experience of TVOS1.0 scale application test in time, promulgate the guidance opinion of popularizing the TVOS1.0 of intelligent TV operating system and promoting the standardization of radio and television terminal.

According to Sohu it understanding, the pilot start-up of Jiangsu Wired and Oriental cable two cable operators, respectively, undertook 500,000 sets of pilot promotion tasks.

tvOS 1.0 System of non-state mandatory standards, its biggest feature is that the product conforms to the relevant provisions of 181th, at the same time from the bottom of the technical restrictions, products can not root, to eliminate the possibility of unauthorized installation of the application from the outside. In line with the "controllable, safe broadcast" requirements.

SARFT This notice only in the radio and television system within the expansion of the tvOS 1.0 system promotion, because tvOS standard non-state mandatory standards, the current Internet manufacturers and other third-party manufacturers of the OTT television operating system is not affected by this notice.

According to Sohu it understands the situation, because of the tvOS system, including home appliances manufacturers, millet and other internet TV manufacturers, Third-party Ott set-top boxes, and so on most manufacturers, in its OTT set-top box will not use the operating system. The recent OTT set-top box for several radio and television operators is also built into Android.

This year, a number of radio and television operators launched the Dvb+ott operation strategy, SARFT's notice, will undoubtedly be in a very short period of time to rapidly expand the tvOS in the radio and television system installed capacity has a significant impact. With the state of the Internet television screen supervision, the status of radio and television tvos system will gradually reflect.

Previously, for the OTT market in the gray zone, SARFT launched a OTT broadcast control platform for the rectification work. The audio-visual Programs Division also stressed in the relevant occasions that Internet television is a form of radio and television, must comply with the principles of broadcasting and television management laws and regulations and the spirit of the requirements.