The AMASS++ project is a project sponsored by Flemish public interests aimed at increasing the usefulness and usability of multimedia archives notably combined text, audio and visual data through the application of natural language and image processing technologies. To this end, we are collecting digital print media news reports, and television news programming. This data will be thematically o...

Focusing on the work of the left-wing film and television director Roy Battersby, this article seeks to shed light on the issues at stake in the controversies surrounding the production and reception of ‘radical television drama’ during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through an examination of a number of BBC productions that were either cut (Five Women), banned (Hit Suddenly Hit) or the subjec...

Internet-enabled television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate audience measurements using Smart TV com...

Research at Televirtual (Norwich9 and the University of East Anglia, funded predominantly by the Independent Television Commission and more recently by the UK Post Office also, has investigated the feasibility of using virtual signing as a communication medium for presenting information to the Deaf. We describe and demonstrate the underlying virtual signer technology, and discuss the language p...

Introduction In this position paper we explore the use of record and reuse facilities to create broadcast television material from mixed reality experiences that involve online and ‘on the streets’ participants. This is motivated by our previous work on inhabited television and also by ongoing discussions about making a TV pilot show based on the game Can You See Me Now. We describe this applic...

This paper proposes an architecture for the development of interactive digital television systems accessible via voice. The proposed architecture is applicable to any interactive digital television application developed under the MHP standard, which runs on an interactive receiver equipped with return channel via Ethernet. The user needs only a mobile device with audio I/O, capable of running a...

The techniques for video format conversion recently have reached a maturity, where they no longer prohibit application in the consumer domain because of high price or clear picture degradation. Given the resulting new freedom, the question arises how to optimally choose a display format, i.e. free from the television history. In this paper, we present an evaluation of various realistic display ...

Alissa Chater offers a three-part analysis of Netflix original animated television show, Bojack Horseman. In her analysis Chater discusses the ways in which the show is in dialogue with the sitcom genres it parodies as she compares the world of Bojack Horseman to the show-within-a-show, Horsin’ Around, the sitcom the titular character starred in some twenty years previous. Chater explores the w...

This paper discusses a process of designing and implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) for an XML browser. The process consists of four steps: a) a concept of a multimedia browser for television is de ned; b) the GUI requirements are de ned; c) a prototype is designed and tested with multimedia authoring tools; and d) nally, the prototype is implemented, which is done in Java, and integr...