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Trust assessment of 'Canvas' proposals - revised governance and cost information

The ±«Óãtv Trust has today published its provisional conclusions from its assessment of Project Canvas. Project Canvas is a joint venture between the ±«Óãtv and five other partners to develop and promote a common standard that would allow digital terrestrial TV viewers with a broadband connection to watch on-demand services and other internet services without paying a subscription (other than for broadband costs).

The provisional conclusions and details of the public consultation can be found below:

The provisional conclusions were based upon the Public Value Assessment and Market Impact Assessments that the Trust carried out.

The Trust's Public Value Assessment can be found here:

Supporting research and analysis

The Trust commissioned research reports from Opinion Leader and TNS Omnibus which can be found here:

The Trust commissioned three reports from Value Partners as part of its Market Impact Assessment. These can be found here:

During its assessment the Trust received a large number of consultation responses. Responses to the first Trust consultation (February to March 2009) .

We have received responses from the following organisations to the additional information provided by the ±«Óãtv and published by the Trust in July and November 2009:

Copies of non-confidential responses can be found here:

The Trust also commissioned a report from Frontier Economics to consider the possible effect of Canvas on the incentives for the public service broadcasters to syndicate their content to other platforms. This can be found here: