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EU to fund P2P
Posted by: eusty on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 05:38 PM
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The European Union has announced plans that it will invest £10m in a new
research project for using peer-to-peer technology (P2P) for internet
television.
It's planned to build an open-source service called P2P Next and will join 19
universities with broadcasters like the BBC to help them find better ways to
reach the TV-downloading online audience and offer high-quality on-demand
television.
The total budget of £14m will be used to provide the service to different
devices including both PCs and set-top boxes.
"It is our intention to allow audiences to build communities
around their favourite content via a fully personalised system,"
"This technology could potentially be built into VOD services in the
future and plans are underway to test the system for broadcasting
the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest live online." |
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