Latest news - 3 Aug - Virgin Media has lodged a complaint with regulator Ofcom that Project Canvas stifles innovation and is anti-competitive.
Latest news - 23 July - After purchasing Channel Five, Richard Desmond has said he is keen to return it to Project Canvas.
Project Canvas is the current working name given to a proposed endeavour concerned with internet-connected television in the United Kingdom market. It is intended to combine broadcast content with broadband content, delivering both through the television (as distinct from the computer).
The endeavour's core principle is around developing a set of standards - including both technical and content standards - that once confirmed will be open to the industry as a whole. These standards will be used to create the necessary hardware (such as set top boxes) and programming content to allow for content typically accessed via the computer on the internet to be delivered to the television, combined with existing digital terrestrial television.
Upcoming key dates
| Summer 2010 | Software development kit (SDK) for Canvas expected to be released |
| Spring 2011 | First Canvas set top boxes anticipated to go on sale |
See, and add to, the complete timeline here, including past key dates.
