A system for the delivery of interactive television programming

Author

Haskin, R.L. ; Stein, F.L.

Author_Institution

IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

5-9 March 1995

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

215

Abstract

Interactive television is a technology for delivering television programming on demand to households and businesses. Rather than passively choosing from a predetermined set of programs at scheduled times, the viewer can request programming to be delivered to him individually on demand. This paper describes a system being developed by IBM that is in active use at customer trials. The system supports movies on demand as well as more interactive applications such as home shopping. This system as deployed today on IBM´s RS/6000 series of computers supports in the hundreds of viewers, but running on the SP-2 supercomputer and its follow-ons, the system can be scaled to support thousands of interactive viewers.

Keywords

home shopping; interactive television; interactive video; IBM´s RS/6000 series of computers; SP-2 supercomputer; home shopping; interactive television programming; movies on demand; television programming on demand; Application software; Business; Costs; Data compression; Job shop scheduling; Motion pictures; Programming profession; Supercomputers; TV; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon '95.'Technologies for the Information Superhighway', Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

1063-6390

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7029-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1995.512388

Filename

512388