Lets create an international collaboration to save “free tv”
a letter to europe. to senior members of the technical group (chairman) for the metadata standards and the technical director for the DTG.
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My name is Timothy Holborn. I have started a new business, in Australia focused upon the development of Interactive TV. One of the key technologies i am looking into for full-scale development, is the TV-Anytime specifications. From a business perspective, I’m also very interested in potentially utilising the “freeview” brand. I imagine that there are many components to the jigsaw already figured out, which would make things much easier to commercialise a similar system in Australia. Furthermore, it may immediately provide relationships to share and develop Free View Styled solutions via any software systems developed, being cross distributed and contributing towards further standardisation of Free iTV distribution and content production.
The basis to my iTV technology and business concept, is an ability to bind broadband connectivity with DVB-T (inc. DVB-MHP) and produce an interactive television platform, that is focused maintaining a “Free TV” styled delivery experience - Free to Watch and Interact TV, managed by channel providers (“broadcasters”).
One of the many problems in Australia for this type of project is the size of the Australian market. Without wanting to re-invent the useful components of the wheel, I believe I have a unique style to fixing the problem of how Free to Air TV maintains and grows it’s audience.
So, I’m going about building the plan, for investment and would really like the opportunity to work with the DTG and related organisations throughout this endeavour.
Please let me know if there are any opportunities to solidify some initial understanding and potentially form an initial agreement that would help Free TV into the future.
