Thomson has become the latest consumer electronics manufacturer to join the Open IPTV Forum. Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Siemens, Sony, and Telecom Italia formed the pan-industry initiative in 2007. Its purpose is to produce end-to-end specifications for IPTV users without concern for underlying technologies.
“We see the Open IPTV Forum as the right body to be developing these standards, with a critical mass of key players behind it” said Patrick Montliaud, Senior Vice President of Thomson’s Networks and Integration Solutions business unit. “By becoming a member of the Open IPTV Forum, we are committing significant engineering resources to make the necessary open standards a reality and to open up the true potential of IPTV.”
Thomson has already played a role in the development of open standards having participated in the development of more than 60 international standards organisations including ETSI, the DVB project and the HD Forum.
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