How is an MHP Set-Top Box Built?

• Diagram from: MHP Reference Implementation, Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT), 2001

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  Existing standards are used for content including PNG, JPEG (still images), MPEG-2 (Video/Audio), DVB-HTML (text/web pages). MHP is a virtual machine (DVB-J) based on the Java Virtual Machine specification from Sun Microsystems, with standardised interfaces (APIs) to MHP specific functions.
  Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT), have produced a partial MHP Reference Implementation (IRT’s MHP-RI) available to the MHP community. However, this is not planned to implement MHP until March 2002 fully. The MHP-RI is implemented in Java to run under Windows NT 4.0 on at least the equivalent of a 500-MHz Pentium III and 32 to 128 Mbytes of RAM.