RADON Open Source Interactive Television Framework

Massive Interactive writes "We have released an Open Source Interactive Television application framework (called Radon). From the site: 'Radon provides an easy to use wrapper API that simplifies the process of developing applications with OpenTV's SDK. It includes a debugging framework that makes discovering bugs in your code extremely easy and provides an ultra-lightweight COM like gadget and service interface that means that modular additions can be made to the framework.' Full details available at http://radon.set-top.net."

Comments

good to see

[Miguel de Icaza]

thats a pretty impressive open source project. although in the long run i think instead of using COM you would be better off using .NET. At least you are not currently using closed standards for TV application delivery like Europe has mandated - which my Coleagues and i have campaigned hard to prevent.

Re:good to see

[dual_base_33]

.NET is too heavy for the majority of currently deployed set-top boxes. Many of these boxes use low end RISC processors with 20Mhz of raw grunt! :) (I have been keeping a close eye on dotGNU and Mono for possible future use (/me waves to rhys) ) I have coded for the original GameBoy. Once you get down the the VM level on these boxes, a GameBoy has more power.. The Radon system is "COM like", but its not "COM compatible". We were trying to draw the similarity. We have pushed OpenTV's dynamic linker to the edge.. and then some :).

Of couse Microsoft plans to use IL for their next iTV platform.

In Australia it looks like MHP is on hold. All the free-to-air channels are already re-broadcast over the handful of PayTV operators which are OpenTV 'enabled' so it looks they will opt for OpenTV interactivity in the short term.