The trials and travails of interactive TV

  • Authors:
  • T. S. Perry

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Experiments and limited commercial rollouts of interactive television continue, delivered over wired networks of various combinations of fiber optics, coaxial cable, and twisted wire-pairs. Attention, though, is turning to technologies that may bring swifter market success: wireless cable and cable modems. The author describes these technologies and discusses some of the interactive TV trials taking place in the USA