Editing Multimedia Home Platform (section)

== Technology ==
[[Image:MHP-software stack english.png|frame|right|MHP software stack]]
The MHP specifies an extensive application execution environment for digital interactive TV, independent of the underlying, vendor-specific, hardware and software. This execution environment is based on the use of a [[Java platform|Java]] [[virtual machine]] and the definition of generic APIs that provide access to the interactive digital TV [[Computer terminal|terminal]]'s typical resources and facilities. The interoperable MHP applications are running on top of these APIs. A so-called Navigator-application, which is part of the terminal software, allows the user the access to all MHP applications and other DVB services (like TV and radio). Sometimes Navigator can be also a Java program itself but that is not a requirement.

The MHP is just a part of a family of specifications, which all base on the [[Globally Executable MHP]] (GEM)-Standard, which was defined to allow the worldwide adoption of MHP.