BT´s video on demand trials

Author

Kerr, Gordon

Author_Institution

British Telecom, London, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

20-22 Jun 1995

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

204

Abstract

The first major differentiating service on the information superhighway may well be video on demand (VOD), a term that often includes not only movies and past TV programmes but also transactional services such as shopping, banking, education, training and games, all fully on-demand and all initially aimed squarely at the mass residential market, delivered over telecommunications networks. During 1994, BT ran a technology trial of VOD in Suffolk, UK, for 60 employee customers and is now moving towards launching a market trial of various interactive multimedia services for perhaps 2500 paying customers. The paper looks at the major aspects of BTs implementations of VOD

Keywords

information networks; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia communication; telecommunication networks; Suffolk; UK; banking; education; games; information superhighway; interactive multimedia services; residential market; shopping; telecommunications networks; training; transactional services; video on demand trials; Asynchronous transfer mode; Cities and towns; ISO standards; Libraries; Muscles; Programmable control; Road transportation; Signal design; Video compression; Video on demand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Community Networking, 1995. Integrated Multimedia Services to the Home., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2756-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CN.1995.509571

Filename

509571