1. Proposal for Multimedia Home System TA
For AGS meeting
Proposal for Multimedia Home System TA
Yushi Komachi

2. Purpose
Since some recording equipment with HDD has begun to ship in the market, it is necessary to recommend a standardization strategically about operability, connectivity and etc. to prevent an user's confusion.

3. Previous report Beijing meeting Athens meeting
100B(Beijing/Okuda)22 : Mr. Oshima
100B(Beijing/NL) : Mr. van Lier
Athens meeting
100B(Athens/Majima)24-1, 2 : Mr. Tamura

4. Task of system TA
Study of applicable technology and development of standards, - not for the individual hardware device, - but for the system specification containing the software - for making use of the total system connected in the network, as follows;

5. Objects of system TA System interface
Application Programming Interface
Modelling for system structure
System specifications

6. Projects Soon Home server Conceptual model: JNC Meta-data : SMPTE
API for Universal Disk Format : JNC
POF : JNC
Others :TV Anytime forum
Future

7. Market trends USA: Set top box with HDD TiVo, Replay TV, ZapMedia
Europe:Philips,
Japan: 100B(Athens/Majima)24-2 　　　　　and new equipment 　　　　　　　Recorder with HDD and other recording media

8. Standardization activities
TV Anytime forum
ARIB
ISO /IEC JTC1/SC25/WG1 HES
OSGi
many fora, consortia and etc.
reported at Athens

9. Technical trends IEEE 1394 IEEE802.11 Bluetooth Home RF Jini OSGi HAVi
IEEE802.15WPAN
HyperLAN2
HomePNA
UPnP
ECHONET
POF
Liaison or no touch ?

10. Schedule Propose this in AGS meeting Hope to Approve it in AGM meeting
Endorse it in TC100 plenary of October general meeting

11. Conclusion Proposal for System TA Existence of Projects
Strategic standardization