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On December 12, SINA technology exclusive was informed that the dispute between highly concerned by the industry standard for IPTV will enter the contest started on 13th stage, the relevant authorities will start IPTV standards under review process.

It is learnt that the competent communication standard-setting work of the China Communications Standards Association will bring together members of the unit, 6 expert reviews submitted IPTV industry standards, Jiang Lintao served as Chief Engineer in charge by the Ministry of Telecommunication Research Institute, telecommunication and related operators such as Netcom have participated.
According to the relevant sources, which is filed by the drafting group did half a year before preparing reviews and will review the standards include IPTV system, function modules, networking, video decoding.
One of the most striking is the video decoding section. The industry has been widely reported telecommunications operators tend to H.264, and radio and television department wants MEPG4, and the latest home-made audio and video codec standard AVS claims available to IPTV. According to sources, the criteria for this review a total of 6, including the above 3 standard.
It is learnt that the above IPTV draft standard was submitted by Research Institute of the Ministry of telecommunications, future test carried out by its auspices. Research Institute of the Ministry of Telecommunications Standards Institute-related sources, IPTV is the standard review is not publishing the results tomorrow, but to the whole process of starting, as any standard of review must go through three trials of three draft, therefore, IPTV standards review conference to be held at least twice, after each review will be modified according to the relevant recommendations. Once the end of the three reviews, publish IPTV standards. However, the source said, and specific release time could not be disclosed.

News source: SINA technology