Finland Public TV Services

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Finland Public TV Services
I Conference on Service TV Barcelona 2th June
2005 Ms. Marjukka Saarijärvi
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Digital TV milestones in Finland
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Digital TV transmissions and coverage in Finland

• Multiplex C
• CANAL, 4 pay-TV channels
• Urheilukanava (sports channel)
• TV5 Finland Oy
• Local channels
• Turun Kaapelitelevisio Oy
• Tuotantoyhtiö Kuvaputki Oy
• KPY Kaapelitelevisio Oy
• Estradi
• radios Iskelmä and Kiss
• short-term television operating licences

• Multiplex A
• YLE TV1
• YLE TV2
• YLE24
• YLE Teema
• YLE FST
• Radio services
• YLE Radio Peili
• YLEQ
• YLE Radio Vega
• Yle Classic

• Multiplex B
• MTV3
• MTV3 (partly pay-TV)
• Subtv
• Nelonen
• Nelonen Plus

• Cable TV networks
• Several local cable operators
• Digitalised throughout the country
• Operators carry broadcasts of terrestrial
  network license owners and a number of other
  channels

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• 25 of households - 600 000 - have digital
  receivers
• Penetration of terrestrial broadcasting 44 (456
  000 households) and cable 11 (114 000
  households)
• 3 MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) enabled
• Total number - 722 000
• Spread of digital TV is consumer driven
• No subsidies
• Promotion of new service through regular
  broadcast
• and other media.

The digital TV receiver situation in February 2005
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Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)

• DVB SI EIT shows today, tomorrow and full 8 day
  schedule
• Programme name, short description, content
  description
• List of services
• DAB services
• Data services
• All DVB services
• Other common
• configurations
• possible

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YLE Digital Teletext

• One application, a range of content
• The same MHP application for every broadcaster
• Can create different content, user-interfaces and
  feel
• DVB MHP-compatible
• content format
• Navigation by page
• numbers,hyperlinks
• and menus.

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Use of red and blue button in remote control

• Blue button opens service list

• Red button activates programme related services

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Examples of MHP Services
YLE Parliament application
YLE Newsticker
YLE Newsticker
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Elections and DVB-MHP
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INTERACTIVE SERVICES Enigma quizzshow
Possibility to take part in the game either via
MHP return channel or sms messaging
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Digital TV cluster programme ArviD 2004-2005
By the end of the decade digital TV - by
exploiting the best features of broadcast service
and evolving consumer habits will have assumed
a well recognised role as a conduit for
entertainment, information, participation,
education and business. www.arvid.tv
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The ArviD programme promotes the use of digital
TV by

• sponsoring the development of service innovations
  ranging from entertainment to business
  applications
• initiating cluster-wide measures to achieve
  synergies in service production
• creating a network for cluster-wide collaboration
• programme related and interactive services
• 14 service development projects
• MHP specifications used

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Service Development Projects

• DTV services for senior citizens
• iTV application for a Heath Care show
• MHP Context subtitling, sign language chat and
  T-learning
• Text to Speech
• Game enhanced language T-learning application
• Communal learning for Children
• City of Helsinki DTV tourist information
• Interactive library services
• Event TV ticketing
• Personalized Real Time Public Transportation
  Information
• iTV Capture
• Multichannel publishing system
• End-user test-panels for pre-production testing

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More information about health
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Health tests related to the themes of the Akuutti
programme
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Communal learning experience through digital TV,
Pilot Get along
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Virtual environment for communal learning for
schoolchildren
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Capital of Finland on digital TV

• Helsingin kaupungin digi-tv hankkeen
  tavoitteet
• pilotoida sisällön jakelua digi-tvn kautta ja
  kerätä siitä kokemuksia.
• lisätä asiakkaiden itsepalvelun astetta
  tiedonhaussa ja asioinnissa, ja siten vähentää
  painetta puhelinneuvonnassa ja asiakaspalvelupiste
  issä.
• markkinoida Helsingin tapahtumia ja
  matkailukohteita, ja siten välillisesti lisätä
  kulttuuri- ja matkailusektorilta saatavia
  verotuloja.

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Subtitles become speech
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More informationwww.digitv.fi information about
digital TVnetwork, technical development,
channels, equipmentwww.arvid.tv Digital TV
cluster programme

• Thank you!