Triveni Digital Showcases Digital Television Educational Content Distribution Architecture at The PubliC Television ED-Tech & Ice Cream Event on Capitol Hill
Uses the DTV Spectrum to Send High-Bandwidth Educational Material to Students and Teachers
Princeton Junction, NJ and Washington, D.C., August 31, 2001
Triveni Digital, the leading solutions provider for the management of enhanced data and metadata in digital broadcast streams, will showcase a prototype of their educational content distribution architecture at the public television Ed-Tech and Ice Cream event on Capitol Hill. The event, hosted by the Association of America's Public Television Stations (APTS), will be held on Wednesday, September 5 from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rooms B338-B340. Ed-Tech and Ice Cream will highlight groundbreaking educational technology initiatives that many local public television stations are undertaking as part of the transition to digital television technology.
Triveni Digital's architecture for educational content distribution would allow for teachers to search and review multimedia educational material using low bandwidth connections such as a dial-up Internet connection from home. After selecting the desired material, they would be able to request for the content to be delivered directly to their school via the Digital TV (DTV) spectrum of their participating local public television station. The content would be received and stored on the teacher's school computer and then be available for on-demand use.
"Public television is bullish on DTV as an education delivery platform, and schools need access to high-quality curriculum content to meet challenging new standards," stated John Lawson, president of the Association of America's Public Television Stations. "Public television will use digital television to deliver a new generation of educational content directly to the classrooms. Triveni Digital's proven expertise in data broadcasting and related services has been key to this development, and we expect the excellent working relationship to show real results."
"Triveni Digital is a purveyor in implementing innovative DTV applications that can be used by public television stations in satisfying their mission," said Jonathan Schembor, Director of Custom Solutions at Triveni Digital. "The use of public television stations' DTV spectrum for the distribution of quality TV programming and associated digitized assets is incredibly efficient in terms of speed, cost and the ability to reach those that are often slighted in access to broadband technology."
The DTV spectrum of public television stations provides an ideal delivery channel of content to schools in each station's coverage area. By using a portion of the 19.4Mbps offered by DTV technology, public television stations would be able to re-purpose and distribute their valuable high-bandwidth educational material to any school offering the same quality of viewing that has come to be expected from television. Public television stations would be able to distribute their award-winning programming content along with various types of digitized assets such as teacher aids, student quizzes, multimedia applications, and diverse supplementary materials. This ability to easily receive and utilize public television content and ancillary educational materials is valuable to teachers who desire innovative and engaging content to assist them in the classroom.
Triveni Digital's architecture would provide public television stations with the ability to offer teachers a branded Web site containing high-bandwidth content, which can be researched, reviewed and requested using a low-bandwidth connection. The Triveni Digital architecture will embed the desired high bandwidth educational content within the local public television stations DTV spectrum on request. The content will then be received by the school's content server equipped with a DTV card and displayed to the teacher in an easy to use interface. Public television stations' ability to proactively distribute the most sought after content to all the schools within their coverage area would eliminate unnecessary bandwidth usage when transferring the same content to many schools while offering teachers true on-demand viewing.
Several public television stations, state networks and PBS will also present interactive demonstrations during the Ed-Tech & Ice Cream event. Those participating include: Idaho Public Television, Iowa Public Television, KCPT (Kansas City, MO), KERA (Dallas, TX), KNME (Albuquerque, NM), KUED (Salt Lake City, UT), Maryland Public Television, Mississippi Educational Broadcasting, New Jersey Network, WETA (Washington, D.C.), WGBH (Boston, MA), WITF (Harrisburg, PA), PBS 45 & 49 (Youngstown/Akron, OH), Thirteen/WNET (New York, NY), WYCC (Chicago, IL), WQLN (Erie, PA) and KET, The Kentucky Network.
Triveni Digital, Inc., a subsidiary of LG Electronics, develops digital television systems, focusing on equipment for management of data and meta-data in digital broadcast streams. Triveni's products for ATSC PSIP, data broadcasting, stream analysis and monitoring are renowned for their ease of use and innovative features. Triveni Digital's Custom Solutions business enables the rapid deployment of solutions for data broadcast applications. Working with leading industry partners, Triveni Digital employs an open and standards-compliant approach to the digital television market.
Public television currently serves 99 percent of U.S. households with valuable educational, information, entertaining, commercial-free television programming. APTS is a nonprofit membership organization whose members are the nation's public television stations. It represents stations' interests before Congress, the FCC, the Departments of Commerce and Education and other federal agencies. For more information about APTS, visit the Web site at www.apts.org.
