Seoul, South Korea - A group of consumer electronics, technology and broadcast companies have formed dotTV, a consortium that aims to bring interactive elements like social networking and online video to the TV viewing experience.

Members of the consortium include Korean broadcasters KBS, EBS and SBS, electronics firms Samsung and LG, and technology firms Irdeto and VMark.

"By leveraging the confluence of digital terrestrial television tuners, DVRs and Internet access in Digital Televisions, set-top boxes and other consumer electronics devices, dotTV is developing a platform that provides viewers with a more social, interactive viewing experience,"said Won-Kun Lee, EVP of KBS.

"By supplementing our broadcast content with relevant metadata, viewers will be able to search for content of interest, retrieve more information about specifics presented in the content as well as share this content with friends over any connected viewing device."

Among other features, the technology will enable TV viewers to record content, mark individual scenes with a bookmark, and share these bookmarked scenes on the Internet.

Initial services based on the dotTV standard are set for deployment in Korea in 2009, with expansion to other regions soon thereafter.

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http://www.irdeto.com

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http://www.dot-tv.org