WATCH VIDEO – IFA 2010 – BERLIN. The French public broadcaster France Televisions has announced it will launch connected TV services using the HbbTV standard with LG as its first partner. The broadcaster is showing the first applications at the stand of LG Electronics.
Connected TV is one of the major topics at this year’s consumer electronics show, with demonstrations at many of the stands. German broadcasters here in Berlin are quite active launching services using the new HbbTV standard.
France Televisions has also been working on a number of features that it is showing, with a launch foreseen for early 2011.
Here is a video of the demo at the LG stand in Berlin (unfortunately, the video is available in French only).
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