Consumer friendly delivery of multimedia digital services

The cable and satellite delivered TV services established to date have generally assumed that subscribers will be content with a single service provider. Where there has been direct competition between satellite DBS access to free-to-air services has required the viewer to take some special action to switch between the two modes of delivery. The advent of digital television opens the way for a review of the architecture of television receiving systems. A basic starting point of this new receiver might be an MPEG II input because that format seems to be emerging as an quasi world-wide standard