Welcome to the Homepage
of the  STORit project

 
Contents of the STORit Pages

• Summary of the STORit objectives and technical approach
• Publicly available documents about the STORit project
  • Publications and presentations
  • Public Deliverables
  • DAVIC 1.5 Spec.: Applications for Home Storage and Internet Based Systems
    "TV Anytime and TV Anywhere", rev.4.0. This is an important project output by
    Philips and BBC. (word-file,  PDF-file)
  • Report on the STORit demonstration at IBC'99
  • TV Anytime paper presented at opening of IBC'99 (PDF-file)
  • TV Anytime Forum presentation at IBC'99 workshop (PDF-file, PPT-file)
  • Final report (PDF-file)
• How to contact the STORit project key persons
• Important links to other projects and initiatives

Executive Summary

The STORit project investigates end-to-end solutions for the delivery of multimedia services to end-users involving the combination of a broadband delivery channel such as DVB, lower bandwidth connections such as internet and affordable local mass storage at the users home.
The project will focus on two application areas: digital television and remote learning.

In the television area, we will investigate ways to provide and obtain additional information to accompany the broadcasts, both incorporated in DVB and through separate channels. On the one hand, this will help the consumer to get easier access to the many services and sources of information provided, matched to his personal preferences. On the other hand, the service provider will have more and better means to lead the user to other services offered, such as related programs, publications, web sites, etc.

In the remote learning area, we will focus on options for study at the users home, making extensive use of local storage, but also of low-bandwidth connections with teachers to achieve interactivity. Here too, personalised service will play an important role, in order to optimise the learning process for each individual student.

A system will be developed to implement such end-to-end solutions. This will include tools to prepare content and additional data, a home storage system supporting several storage media and delivery channels, and user interfaces to present it all to the user in an intelligible and personalised way.

The project is carried out from March 1998 until February 2000 by a European consortium of industries and universities, and is sponsored by the European Union under the ACTS-project programme as project AC312.

The STORit consortium consists of the following partners:

• Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Philips Research in Monza, Italy
• Olivetti Telemedia / Italia OnLine, Pisa, Italy
• British Broadcast Corporation, London, UK
• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Tandberg Data, Oslo, Norway
• Space Applications Services, Zaventem, Belgium
• Delft University of Technology, Information Theory Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Netherlands
   

The URL of this STORit homepage is: http://www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/storit/  
Last modified: 09 Jul 2002