2. Cable Television.

2.1 The history of Cable Television.

2.2 The advantages of having a large cable network.

2.3 The possibilities of combining telecommunication and television networks.

3.1 British Telecom and its interactive services.

4.1 What is Interactive Television.

4.2 What technology is needed for Interactive Television.

4.3 How the interactive signal is transmitted.

4.4 The cost of Interactive Television.

1 The Future Of Terrestrial Television

The future of television is very much in the hands of remarkable advancements in digital technology and the entrepreneurs who see the profit to be made from this recent progress.

In the search for higher definition programme formats to give us large, crisp, sharp images with less apparent line structure, digital television has been leading the way for the last three years. High Definition Tel

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specification processor - similar to a multimedia PC) the price of the equipment rises considerably. Of course, in the future an all in one unit, with all the equipment needed to receive, decode, watch and take part in interactive television, all in a single television set.

In fact HDTV operates between 20-22MHz ;a staggering four times the bandwidth of our current 5.5MHz PAL system. Yet this is not a problem, because of the recent technological advances in signal compression. Replacing the analogue waves of television today are digital data transmission systems which would integrate a number of broadcasting services into a single broadcasting wave.

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