Chapter 1. Market Drivers
This chapter covers the following topics:
Analog TV
Digital TV
Interactive TV
Video on Demand
Near Video on Demand
World Wide Web
Convergence of Digital TV and the Internet
Datacasting
Games
Funding Models
Consumers receive a variety of services over multiple networks to the home today. They receive voice and data services over telephone networks, and they receive broadcast television services through cable TV networks and over the air. As technologies for the computer, entertainment, and communications industries converge to digital infrastructures, leaders in government and industry are contemplating the development of residential broadband (RBB) networks that will deliver these same services—and new services—to the home. ...
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