So for those of you who wonder exactly what i get up to when i’m in one of our labs working away with my white coat on, here’s an example or two.

First up, real “true” IPTV. This is a recording of our most basic IPTV system in action, featuring live multicast/broadcast video straight to the TV screen and videos served on-demand in the same way. For the nerds amongst us, is H.264 video encoded at 600-800Kbps, alpha-blended HTML menu overlay (Galio) and run on the 1080 STMC set-top box from Complete TV.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-324968641108041273&hl=en-GB

Next, a home video on-demand system that was constructed in Lab B in around 20mins. Its a D-Link media player plugged into a plasms screen TV, and connected to a PC using 85Mbps Homeplug powerline Ethernet. The computer is running the TVersity media server, which automatically converts any video you add to it so it displays on any set-top box or gaming console.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1861318702858620094&hl=en-GB