Design Issues for Interactive Television Systems

  • Authors:
  • Borko Furht;Deven Kalra;Frederick L. Kitson;Arturo A. Rodriguez;William E. Wall

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Computing, communication, and relevant standards are on the brink of enabling thousands of people to enjoy the services offered by large, distributed multimedia systems in their own homes. Collectively, these services will include TV (basic, subscription, and pay-per-view), service navigator, interactive entertainment, digital audio, video-on-demand, home shopping, financial transactions, interactive single- and multiuser games, digital multimedia libraries, and electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, TV program guides, and yellow pages. It is obvious that current TV systems and architectures must be redesigned to support such services. In this article, we propose potential solutions to modify existing systems to support these new functions, and we discuss related matters