Large scale multimedia and interactive television

Abstract

The confluence of social and technological readiness signals that the widespread use of a new technology is coming. Every day the press reports on new developments, both technical and business, regarding the digital highway, networked multimedia and interactive TV. This field is both a large driver and consumer of technology. Large scale multimedia and interactive TV will provide personal interactive access to vast quantities of information in video and multimedia forms. The end user will have available many exciting applications for use in entertainment, education, and business. End to end systems comprised of electronic repositories, high speed networks, TVs, PCs, and other personal devices will be integrated. These systems depend on a variety of new technologies that are just now emerging. This talk will focus on applications, end to end systems and the various new technologies. In particular we will discuss the following applications; video on demand, near video on demand, home shopping, education in school and home, training, manufacturing, and marketing. The following technologies will also be discussed; large, scalable servers, ATM networking, RF Modem technologies (QAM and VSB), ADSL, MPEG compression and transport.