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Basics of Interactive TV

Beside the normal services provided by the current telephone and cable services, Interactive TV will provide a variety of new services to homes, such as:

The MHEG standard (Chapter 8) has been explicitly designed with this in mind.

The are a few delivery mechanism available for the medium:

Telephone Network:

Cable Network:

Cable Network



Dave Marshall
10/4/2001