Summary of new information on Canvas
It’s hard to know whether it was the Friday-lunchtime release, or if there is some sort of Project Canvas fatigue (already!?), but the additional information on Project Canvas released by BBC management has received very little coverage so far.
Here is a summary of what we’ve seen written so far:
- The most comprehensive, no-nonsense summary of points is this post at PaidContentUK. I won’t repeat it all here, but go have a look.
- Broadband TV News in this article covers the the co-operation: how DTG (Digital Tv Group) will work closely with Canvas, as well as open up their membership to ISPs.
- Brand Republic / Media Week focus on the timetable and timings, leading with the feted 2010 launch. Article here.
- The FT’s article from Sat’s print edition has a nice general summary, as well as mentioning the EPG prioritisation issue, and that there will be plenty of commercial opportunities.
And here is the BBC Trust’s statement from Friday, and each section of the additional info (all PDFs): S.1 Venture proposal, S.2 EPG and enabling access for content and service providers , S.3 The agreement of the Canvas specification and industry engagement, S.4 IP distribution and related issues, S.5 ‘Project Canvas’ and fit with wider BBC platform strategy , S.6 Costs.
[Update] There’s also a reaction here from @Nevali. And @BenedictEvans has some thoughts in his tweets.
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Breaking: Additional Project Canvas information from BBC management
More than 7 weeks ago the BBC Trust made its first public announcement regarding its consultation on Project Canvas: “We need more information”.
Today (at about 1pm) that additional information - given to the BBC Trust by BBC management - was published.
We’ll have a wrap-up of responses and coverage (as well as some of our own thoughts) over the new few days, but in the meantime here is:
- the full statement (including a revised consultation timeline)
- the actual additional information to the areas the Trust highlighted (most linked from that page as PDFs)
And of course, to see coverage/responses as they happen around the web, you can do a Twitter search , a Google News search, and a Google Blogsearch.
(Update - 27 July: Here’s a new post linking to some of the press coverage so far.)
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Project Canvas news roundup - 05 July
A collection of all things directly related to Project Canvas from the last two weeks:
- TechRadar: BSkyB’s (Sky’s) director of strategic product development, Gerry O’Sullivan, confirmed that they are definitely still interested in what opportunities Canvas could present them. Not too surprising, especially given the Canvas spec is understood to also include some way of having paid content in addition to the bulk free content. O’Sullivan speaking at the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference after seeing a demo of the service: ‘ “I mean to be quite honest I’ve learned more from listening to Erik [Huggers] about Canvas today than I’ve ever heard before.” ‘.
- At the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference this week, the BBC’s Canvas point man apparently showed a demo of the service. If anyone was there, get in touch - we’d love to hear a description of what was shown.
- At TechRadar: One thing that is available from the conference is a transcript of a short video promo explaining Canvas, also shown by Huggers. It’s not clear whether the promo was made internally, or by one of the ad agencies thought to be have been pitching for the account (it’s also not publicly known if a winner for the pitch was ever decided, and whether there’s an agency currently working on how to communicate Canvas to the public).
- TechRadar: Still at the same Intellect conference, Sony UK head Steve Dowdle has said the UK focus of the Canvas standards worries him, citing the figure of 4% global market share that the UK makes up.
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Breaking: BBC Trust: Give us more info, lots of it
**Breaking News**
As The Telegraph reported yesterday, the BBC Trust had today published its emerging conclusions. Under the timeline of the public consultation - which launched on 26 February - the Trust had until this coming Monday to make known their first thoughts on Project Canvas.
In summary: the Trust has recognised that the partners to Project Canvas - including the BBC, BT, and ITV - need to provide lots more information around all aspects of the proposed venture. This will also mean the original timeline - where the BBC Trust was to make a final decision and announce it by 24 July - is no longer applicable.
From the announcement today:
“Consequently, the Trust does not now intend to publish a decision on the 24 July. We intend to delay the second consultation until after the Executive has returned with further detail in support of its application. This additional information and a revised timetable to complete our assessment will be shared with stakeholders in due course.”
The Trust is now requesting from the Executive information on areas including, but not limited to:
- The choice of technical standards for canvas
- The way in which the BBC will work with industry bodies
- Control of the electronic programme guide
- Governance arrangements for the joint venture
- The use of editorial controls
Find the documents here at the BBC Trust’s announcement page.
Also available is the summary analysis of public consultation document (PDF), and the 392 pages of public responses (PDF - 7mb)
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Update: 12 noon: The Project Canvas partners - BBC, BT, ITV - have issued a short response to the BBC Trust’s morning announcement . In that they sound upbeat that the Trust has found “widespread support” for home IPTV, and of the BBC coordinating & accelerating it.
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