OpenDTV is a community of industry professionals involved with the convergence of three important digital technologies: Television, Computing and Broadband Communications. This community was created by Craig Birkmaier, a technology consultant and journalist, to help these converging industries understand the issues involved with creating a new infrastructure for the production and distribution of digital media content. OpenDTV has a primary focus on the technologies for Digital Television with broad participation from technical and business development executives in the broadcast, cable, DBS, computer, Internet and content creation industries.