DAVIC, Digital Audio Video Council, was founded in 1994 with the aim of promoting the success of interactive digital audio-visual applications and services by promulgating specifications of open interfaces and protocols that maximise interoperability, not only across geographical boundaries but also across diverse applications, services and industries. It was a non-profit international organization based in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
DAVIC was closed, according to its statutes, after 5 years of activity.
At the most DAVIC had 222 companies from more than 25 countries as members, although over its life 295 organisations were members at some stage. It represented all sectors of the audio-visual industry: manufacturing (computer, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment) and service (
broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...
,
telecommunications
Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that ...
and
CATV
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with broadc ...
), as well as a number of government agencies and research organisations.
The four major sets of specifications culminated in 1999 with the 1.4 version. The 1.5 version of DAVIC was a set of additional tools and service definitions opening the road towards the setting of IP based audiovisual services such as the TV Anytime and TV Anywhere services. Version 1.3.1 was re-structured and was approved as an ISO/IEC standard and technical report (ISO/IEC 16500 and ISO/IEC TR 16501).
The management of DAVIC had proposed the continuation beyond the 5-year date with a program of work centred on two projects: ''TV Anytime'' and ''TV Anywhere''. The membership did not support the continuation of DAVIC but the idea of ''
TV-Anytime'' continued as a new organisation.
1.4.1 specifications
* Description of DAVIC Audio-Visual Functionalities
* System Reference Models and Scenarios
* Service Provider System Architecture and Interfaces
* Delivery System Architecture And Interfaces
* Service Consumer System Architecture
* Management Architecture and Protocols
* High and Mid Layer Protocols
* Lower Layer Protocols and Physical Interfaces
* Information Representation
* Basic Security Tools
* Usage Information Protocols
* Systems Dynamics, Scenarios and Protocol Requirements
* Conformance and Interoperability
* Contours: Technology Domain
1.5 specifications
* Jitter concealment tools
* Applicability of DAVIC 1.5 Intranet Architecture to TV Anywhere and TV Anytime Scenarios
* DAVIC Cable Modem
* DAVIC Intranet Technical Platform Specification
* TV Anytime and TV Anywhere
See also
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ATSC
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an American set of standards for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. It is largely a replacement for the analog NTSC standard and, like th ...
*
DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television. DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium, and are published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) o ...
*
ISDB
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese: , ''Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu'') is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio.
ISDB supersedes both the NTSC-J analog television system and ...
External links
DAVIC's home page- password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org- password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org but cannot download the documents from here
Copies of DAVIC previously published specificationsnow available for download
Leonardo Chiariglione website- evangelist for DAVIC
Technology trade associations
Organizations established in 1994
Organizations disestablished in 1999
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