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LIVE is an Integrated Project partially funded under the European Union's IST Sixth Framework Programme. It was launched on January 2006 and will run for 45 months. The coordinator is Fraunhofer IAIS.

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LIVE: An Interactive Multi-channel iTV solution to bring more stories and more action to live media events

The LIVE solution radically improves on linear approaches to TV broadcasting of live events by providing digital technologies and content formats that enable viewers to shape their own personal and highly interactive viewing experience.

To keep the viewer on top of the action LIVE has designed a system that is able to adapt the storytelling around a sports event to user feedback and other stories that unfold alongside the main story. The revolution behind LIVE is that in addition to providing multiple live audiovisual streams, there are transition points, where the consumer is invited to switch to another subchannel. This means that the consumer can navigate through the event, getting multiple points of view on the action - because there is always more than one story to tell.

Highlights

The LIVE system and new TV format were tested at ORF (Austrian public broadcaster) during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.  The LIVE trial went “on air” over the three weekends of the Olympic Games 9-24 August 2008 from 9am to 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday. The ORF1 Interaktiv broadcast consisted of 5 interlinked channels. A simple onscreen menu enabled viewers to easily zap across the channels and with the remote control respond to requests and messages from the ORF production team.

>> LIVE Olympic Trial results - a snapshot