Maybe you already participated in a game on TV via your cell-phone; soon you will be able to directly participate in a popular TV-quiz or chat with friends during your favourite TV soap.

Interactive TV already increased the attractiveness of television in a number of countries. And the spread of interactive digital television is expected to increase explosively on the short term. Flanders – being the European area with the most intense cabling network – already has a very unique position. The major broadcasters, Telenet and the government collaborate on one ID-TV framework that is based on open standards and the Java programming language. The leading-edge infrastructure enables read video-on-demand and two-way broadband access for all cable subscribers.

As a content provider, your success on the ID-TV platform will be determined by the speed and transparency with which you can deliver the information in your existing back-office to the set-top boxes on the television.

LodgON offers support in bringing existing information-systems to the ID-TV platform. LodgON has hands-on experience in the implementation of the standards used to get from the back-office to the set-top box. With this experience LodgON enables companies to take the most efficient route to the TV-viewer.

LodgON implemented an end-to-end solution to cover the trajectory from backend to set-top box. This end-to-end framework enables for the creation of your content via open standard XML descriptors and the testing of the content provisioning at the different entry points in the chain.