The European Union has stumped up 14 million euro to fund research into creating a standard method of sending TV over the Internet.
The money has been granted to the P2P-Next consortium, consisting of 21 organisations including the BBC, European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University and Pioneer Digital Design Centre, among others. An additional 5 million euro has been raised by the consortium.
The project aims to use peer-to-peer technology, based on the BitTorrent technology, to create a low-cost method of streaming programmes over the Net to set-top boxes and TVs. It will also allow fans of certain programmes to communicate with each, create forums and send each other content.
Luis Rodríguez-Roselló, Head of Unit of Networked Media at the European Union said:
“This ambitious project is investigating new ways to deliver video using the P2P paradigm making possible to everybody to distribute videos from anywhere to any number of people anywhere in the world. It will be a live trial of the future media Internet we are envisioning. Europe can be proud of having very high quality broadcasting, content and telecommunication sectors."
Dr. Pouwelse from Delft University of Technology and the P2P-Next scientific director, added:
“P2P technology already dominates Internet traffic and is key to our research and development mission of making near-zero cost TV broadcasting available to all Europeans. Prior experience with Tribler, our own P2P software, enables us to contribute the core technology for finding, viewing, and sharing.”
The project will run for 4 years but there will be public trials running from next year.-Martin Lynch
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