Octavian Tanase's Weblog: In the pursuit of development 2.0

Talking about pace. The Java TV folks created in a very short period of time the Java specification for digital terrestrial TV. In a nutshell, the API has been designed to provide access to functionality unique to digital television receivers. Here are some of the key features:

• Audio/video streaming
• Conditional access
• Access to in-band and out-of-band data channels
• Access to service information
• Tuner control for channel changing
• On-screen graphics control

In the future this should tie nicely with key value proposition of the JavaFX platform which will enable to seamless deployment of RIA across multiple devices, including TVs.