The UK Profile of MHEG-5 is a technical specification describing how the MHEG-5

MHEG-5

MHEG-5, or ISO/IEC 13522-5, is part of a set of international standards relating to the presentation of multimedia information, standardised by the Multimedia and Hypermedia Experts Group...

 language is used to provide interactive television

Interactive television

Interactive television describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it.- Definitions :...

 services. It was developed to provide interactive services for the UK digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...

 platform by a group of broadcasters including the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and ONdigital. The specification has undergone a number of revisions. Version 1.06 was published on 15 May 2003 but has since been amended with corrigenda.

External links

• MHEG-5 UK Profile, version 1.06 download, Digital TV Group