Perspectives of Digital TV applications development in Russia

Dmitry Vavilov, Larisa Melikhova, Alexey Logunov

Russian government made principal decision on transition to Digital TV till 2015. This process has already started in several regions including Far East and North West of Russia. However this transition is considered as hang-the-expense action. At the same time some advanced technical solutions (including development of applications for TV) will allow implementing e-commerce oriented business model returning part of investments.

Engineers from Motorola Software Center in St.-Petersburg have significant experience in system engineering and development of applications for different digital television platforms used in the US and Europe. Analysis of major world trends in this area allows the authors preparing suggestions on application development as an important component of Digital TV deployment in Russia. Recommendations and estimations of necessary efforts are provided.

Dmitry Vavilov

Bio

Dr. Dmitry 0. Vavilov graduated from the Baltic State Technical University in 1994. In 1999 he received his PhD in calculating methods.
Dmitry has been working at the Motorola software development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, for more than 10 years. He was responsible for new technologies evaluation and deployment. Now he is the manager of St.-Petersburg System Engineering team working for Home & Networks Mobility. The team develops requirements for several software products.
Dr. Vavilov is also the IEEE Russia North West Section’s Industry Relations Officer since 2004.
Dmitry is the co-author of SECR 2008 presentation “System Engineering: from marketing requirements to product specifications”.

Larisa Melikhova

Bio

Dr. Larisa G. Melikhova graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Math Department. In 1995 got Ph.D. Certificate in Physics and Math. Since 2007 has been working with Motorola St. Petersburg Software Center as a system engineer in MotoGuide software development project.

Alexey Logunov

Bio

Dr. Alex N Logunov was born in 1975 in Kirov, Russia. He graduated from St.Petersburg University of Film and Television with a PhD degree in 2002. His interests have included the objective quality assessment of compressed video, digital signal processing. 15 scientific papers have been published since 1998.