The Broadcast Website application enables the transmission of complete web sites for offline use in a digital radio receiver, which needs to be equipped with web browser software. Besides linked HTML pages, also multimedia elements like images, animated graphics, mp3 files or videos can be offered.
The application is based on the MOT protocol (Multimedia Object Transfer). It assures the integrity and consistency of the provided information, so that for example an updated web site is never presented together with outdated images.
Because of the Broadcast Website's high demand on decoder resources and user interface functionality on the receiver side, combined with quite high bandwidth requirements for multimedia content, the application is not widely used at present - neither in terms of receiver nor in broadcaster support. This might change with an upcoming generation of digital radio receivers, that are integrated into smart phones or PDA like devices.