Project Canvas

Project Canvas
Freeview via Broadband!
The main incentive behind this idea is a cross between watching TV online (which is a very underdemanding market at the moment), and watching traditional television. The answer is to simply watch normal television but entirely through your broadband stream, offering (HD, etc) services for free.

Project Canvas is the current working name given to a proposed endeavour concerned with internet-connected television in the United Kingdom market. It is intended to combine broadcast content with broadband content, delivering both through the television (as distinct from the computer).

The endeavour's core principle is around developing a set of standards - including both technical and content standards - that once confirmed will be open to the industry as a whole. These standards will be used to create the necessary hardware (such as set top boxes) and programming content to allow for content typically accessed via the computer on the internet to be delivered to the television, combined with existing digital terrestrial television.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/february/project_canvas.shtml

http://www.projectcanvas.co.uk/
1 Sep 2009 Stakeholder comments to BBC Trust based on further in-depth information close
Autumn 2009 BBC Trust due to publish their provisional conclusions, followed by a four week period of public consultation
Before Xmas 2010 First Canvas set top boxes anticipated to go on sal