The new version of Java DTV specification, 1.2.1, was released at http://www.forumsbtvd.org.br/materias.asp?id=200.

Java DTV was created in order to prevent some royalty issues from some MHP APIs, like DAVIC e HAVI, in the Ginga-J subsystem of the Brazilian DTV middleware specification, which is also called Ginga. For more information around this soap opera, check this old blog entry.

So, what are the next steps? Java DTV will become a JSR?