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HbbTV is a global initiative targeted at bridging broadcast and broadband delivery of content and services to allow consumption of content on connected TVs, set‐top boxes and mobile devices. Since its release in 2010, the HbbTV standard has gone through two specification updates. The first one took place in November 2012 with the release of version 1.5 which mainly added support for MPEG-DASH Adaptive Streaming on the broadband link. The latest HbbTV 2.0 version, which was published in February 2015, adds major new features including: Extra MPEG-DASH profiles as defined by DVB to make deployment of MPEG-DASH services easier.

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