The Interactive Digital Multimedia Services domain in ACTS 1995-1998

Author

van Noorden, L. ; Griffith, M.

Author_Institution

DGXIIIB, Comm. of the Eur. Communities, Brussels, Belgium

fYear

1996

fDate

12-16 Sep 1996

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

214

Abstract

Interactive Digital Multimedia Services is the largest domain of the European Union´s ACTS programme (Advanced Communication Technology and Services). The work in the domain will have a strong impact on the daily lives of the citizens. The projects cover a substantial part of the converging broadcasting, telecommunications and information technology. ACTS will help the sector actors to maintain and develop further their competitive strength on the basis of pre-competitive, pre-normative and pre-regulatory co-operation. Users will gain an understanding of future services. An overview is presented of the 50 or so projects ordered according to the following topics: multimedia contents manipulation and management; presentation, interaction and storage; transmission media; interworking across different networks; support for commercial services; trials; and transition scenarios/economics

Keywords

multimedia communication; ACTS; Advanced Communication Technology and Services; Interactive Digital Multimedia Services; broadcasting; commercial services; information technology; interworking; multimedia contents management; multimedia contents manipulation; multimedia interaction; multimedia presentation; multimedia storage; multimedia trials; telecommunications; transition scenarios/economics; transmission media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Broadcasting Convention, International (Conf. Publ. No. 428)

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-663-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19960809

Filename

642892