Content Production and Delivery for Interactive Multimedia Services — A New Approach

  • R. Walker
  • P. Foster
  • S. G. Banthorpe
Part of the BT Telecommunications Series book series (BTTS, volume 15)

Abstract

Projects such as BT Interactive TV (BTiTV), BT Touch-point and Campus World [1, 2] have generated considerable experience in developing and delivering multimedia services. In doing so a number of challenges have been identified, many of which are content related.

Keywords

Server Process Content Item Multimedia Service Service Platform Content Production 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

Authors and Affiliations

  • R. Walker
  • P. Foster
  • S. G. Banthorpe

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