Interactive digital video networks: lessons from a commercial deployment

Rath, Kamlesh; Wanigasekara-Mohotli, D.H.; Wendorf, Roli G.; Verma, Dinesh

doi:10.1109/35.587709

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“…Many studies point out that the key for broadband video technology like interactive TV is the cost of technology deployment and the provision of new, innovative services to create consumer demand (Chapman 1995;Jameson 1996;Rath et al 1997;Mundorf et al 1997). Although the technologies may be available, it is easier said than done to combine and build a workable end-to-end interactive TV system.…”

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“…As for BAs residential video services, it should have gone beyond cable TV and video on demand. The Internet needed to be combined into the network for the future success (Rath et al 1997). One piece of research even claims that the telecomDownloaded by [New York University] at 01:11 18 June 2016 munication industries seriously lack an understanding about how consumers will behave in the new telecommunications environment, and what services are more attractive to them.…”

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Deconstructing Interactive TV Networks

Kim

1999

Javnost - The Public

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Interactive TV is a medium providing the users with hundreds of video channels, on-demand delivery of programs, information services, on-line shopping, telebanking, etc. It is a seed-version of a comprehensive home communication medium. It is also a concrete, actual case of media convergence using developing information communication technology. It could also be a reference point to discuss the issue of telecommunications convergence. Interactive TV shows us how the telecommunications industry tries to expropriate information communication technologies according to their corporate visions. A large body of research measures interactive TV a failuresuccess frame, particularly in economic and technological terms. However, the failure-success of interactive TV is only half the story. Interactive TV is certainly a failed technology in terms of technology and business. But the question is more than just wrong technology, wrong business plans, or wrong timing. The problematic of interactive TV should go deeper than that. It should be reframed in the historical notion of cultural and political clashes between the lateral mode and the vertical mode in organising information communication technology in America. In short, the vertical mode of organising relates to a corporate-commercial move, whereas the lateral mode organising relates to an alternative-public move. The history of communication networks, whether broadcasting, telephone, cable, or even the Internet, in the US attests that it is a site of struggle between these two polarising ideals.

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Deconstructing Interactive TV Networks

Kim

1999

Javnost - The Public

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“…Washburn and Perrin, 1996;Hernandez-Valencia, 1997;Humphrey and Freeman, 1997;Khasnabish, 1997). There were many broadband trials in the early to mid-1990s, offering broadband services within limited geographic areas (see Maddox, 1994;Brodeur and Agarwal, 1996;Bartsch and Auer, 1997;Falkus, 1997;Rath, Wanigasekara-Mohotti, Wendorf and Verma, 1997;Zahariadis, Rosa, Pellegrinato, Lund and Stassinopoulos, 1997;Di Concetto, Pavarani, Rosa and Rossi, 1999;Dixit, 1999, for discussion of these trials). Although broadband services have been available on a commercial basis for some time now, there is as yet very little research published on the usage of such services.…”

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Who Needs a 'Killer App'? Two Perspectives on Content in Residential Broadband Networks

Middleton¹

2024

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This paper describes the deployment of a residential broadband network by relating two parallel but contrasting stories. Story 1 considers network providers' search for a killer application to drive demand for broadband networks, while Story 2 suggests that consumers have already found a killer application in e-mail and basic connectivity. It appears that residential broadband networks are currently being developed with a Story 1 perspective in mind. Story 2 should be assessed in the context of its historical persistence and significance. The implications for future development of residential broadband networks are considered when both stories are accepted as plausible.

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“…Despite this growing consumer interest in residential broadband services, there is very little academic research that considers how consumers use broadband networks. Most of the research published to date has focused on technical issues, related primarily to network infrastructure choice and configuration and to mechanisms for deploying content over broadband networks (Bartsch and Auer, 1997;Di Concetto, et al, 1999;Rath, et al, 1997;Zahariadis, et al, 1997). This technical work is essential for the development of broadband networks, but does not offer any insights as to how consumers actually use the services to which they have access, nor does it offer any guidance to providers as to what services are likely to be successful.…”

Section: Residential Broadband Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%