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Liverpool studio working on Project Canvas
Sue Tabbitt ©RapidTVNews | 03-08-2010
Digital development studio Citrus Suite is investigating interactivity for the BBC-backed project to deliver internet content direct to TV screens, Project Canvas.
The UK’s new IPTV scheme, Project Canvas aims to create a standard system of internet-connected set-top boxes.
As part of the initiative, Liverpool-based Citrus Suite is working with the BBC to create a prototype showing how viewers could interact directly with BBC programmes.
Citrus Suite was launched in 2008 by a team of nine artists, designers and programmers. The company is also working on a project for Facebook and will this year launch a new game for the iPad, iPhone and Nintendo Wii.
Project Canvas has been created by a consortium of broadcasters and communications firms, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, BT, Arqiva, and Talk Talk. It aims to create a common set-top box technology that broadcasters and other companies can use, so that consumers won’t have to choose between competing formats. Viewers should be able to receive the new service next year.
On Friday, Talk Talk, which employs 1,000 people in Warrington in north-west England, said it would now ‘step up planning towards a consumer launch by mid-2011’.
