News from German Media Academy on 17 March organized the German Media Academy with support from Deloitte TMT predictions now 7 Delphi Conference in a 4-star hotel Collegium Leoninum in Bonn. “The exciting theme: Hybrid TV: breakthrough or hot air?” For many years, the growing together is predicted by Internet and television. Devices that combined both, there under the heading iTV”from the mid-1990s. It came home Platform MHP, Web TV, Internet TV, IPTV (the latter with good chances to prevail) the multimedia rapidly and now so hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV). A new hype with new opportunities and the speech of true interactivity before the TV, from the breakthrough of T-commerce in the living room is euphoric convergent services between Internet and TV. After the many announcements, product launches and conferences for this purpose in the year 2009, it is a good time to take stock for hybrid-TV in March 2010. The latest TMT study by Deloitte will introduce the topic, supplemented by a very good point of view of market and technology by BITKOM and the Institut fur Rundfunktechnik (IRT).

In the following Delphi rounds to try to gain a well-rounded image based on the essential hybrid TV theses. The highlight of the debate between Thomas A. Curran, CTO of the range of products & innovation is”the DT, Friederike bagon, GF WDR mediagroup digital and Dr. Rainer Hecker, Board Chairman of the Loewe AG, as well as the IFA Organizer godgift under the moderation of Conny Czymoch Phoenix presenter. The opinion of the participants to this don’t miss out: In the run-up to the Conference an opinion barometer with selected hybrid TV theses have been drawn online available at expert barometer-tmt. After testing the theses in the online barometer of Deloitte and the ideas and discussions on the podium, Auditorium of the experts will make an assessment of the theories with the help of TED and provide also a good basis for assessments and decisions. Applications for participation in the Conference (registration fee 100 plus VAT) are Marion Angermann, German Media Academy GmbH.

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