YouView today published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover.
The policy also details YouView’s approach to allocating positions to video on demand content providers in the YouView User Interface.
YouView TV Ltd, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Channel 5 today announced the appointment of Chris Bramley as Chief Technology Officer.
As CTO, Chris Bramley will take immediate responsibility for YouView’s technical team and delivering the venture’s overall technology strategy.
YouView marked the next stage of its engagement with industry today as it published its final core technical specification for launch and announced further device partners.
A single technical document, detailing the core YouView interoperability specification for launch is now available on the YouView web site.(1)
The YouView Core Technical Specification references the Digital Television Group’s D-Book 7 (2) and provides a set of technologies to enable the delivery of broadcast and IP enabled content onto a television set via a broadband connected device.
YouView Ltd, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Channel 5, today announces that Kip Meek has resigned from his role as Non-Executive Chairman. Kip joined YouView in July 2010 to lead the Board of the new venture and has overseen the incorporation of YouView and formal commitment to the project of its 7 shareholders, the achievement of regulatory approval and the appointment of Chief Executive Officer, Richard Halton.
YouView, a new subscription-free internet-connected TV service for the UK, today confirmed that it will have a product in trial by the end of this year, with a full consumer launch planned in early 2012.
YouView will seamlessly bring digital TV combined with the last 7 days’ catch-up TV, on demand services and interactive applications straight to the television set – subscription free.
YouView today announced new appointments in technology and operations to further strengthen delivery teams ahead of its consumer launch.
In operations Andrew Burdess, formerly BT Vision Operations Director and Head of Service Operations at NTL, has joined as Director of Operations. He will take responsibility for developing all consumer facing aspects of the platform and ensuring technical resilience of back end services.