Ginga is the

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specification for the Nipo-Brazilian Digital Television System (

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, from the Portuguese ''Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital''). Ginga is also ITU-T Recommendation for IPTV Services. It is also considered in ITU-T recommendations for Cable Broadcast services (ITU-T J.200 Recommendation series: Rec. ITU-T J.200, Rec. ITU-T J.201 and Rec. ITU-T J.202) and for Terrestrial Broadcast services by ITU-R BT.1889, ITU-R BT.1699 and ITU-R BT.1722. Ginga was developed based on a set of standardized technologies but mainly on innovations developed by Brazilian researchers. Its current reference implementation was released under the

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license. Ginga is divided into two main integrated subsystems, which allow the development of applications following two different programming paradigms. Those subsystems are called Ginga-NCL (for declarative NCL applications) and Ginga-J (for imperative

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applications). In the case of the Brazilian Terrestrial Digital TV System, and any other Digital TV Systems following the definitions in the

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standards for the Ginga Middleware ABNT 15606, Ginga-J is required to be supported in fixed receivers and it is optional in portable receivers. For IPTV services following the H.761 ITU-T Recommendation, only the Ginga-NCL subsystem is required, for any terminal type.

Development

Ginga was developed by Telemídia Lab from

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(PUC-Rio) and by LAViD from

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(UFPB).

References

External links

Ginga Official Web Site

Ginga NCL and Ginga Communities

Ginga Code Development Network
(Portuguese language)
Intel and Sun will develop Ginga-J in Brazil
(16 March 2009)
ITU passed Ginga
, NexTV Latam (6 April 2010)
Telemídia LabLAViDtmira solutions
Ging
broadcast server
and Ging
iTV browser

Brazil invested US$27 million in five years (between 2005 and 2010) to develop interactive TV

Fujitsu launches DTT STBs with Ginga
, NexTV Latam (4 March 2011)
Brazil wants to reach 2015 with the 100% of TV set fitted with Ginga
, NexTV Latam (14 November 2011)
Brazil prepares its Ginga pilot run with return channel
, NexTV Latam (14 February 2012)
Argentina launches interactive TV soccer app
, TV Pública Digital (Argentina), NexTV Latam (8 March 2012)
Venezuela tests free software apps for DTT
, NexTV Latam (22 Aug. 2012)

ABNT NBR 15606-1

SBTVD Forum - Digital TV Standards
Ginga-J: The Procedural Middleware for the Brazilian Digital TV System Official page for Ginga
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706161550/http://www.ginga.org.br/en , date=2011-07-06
Intel and Sun will develop Ginga-J in Brazil
(16 March 2009)

Others links

User Group Ginga-DF (Ginga Distrito Federal - BR) Digital television Interactive television Brazilian inventions Middleware Digital television software ISDB

Development

See also

References

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