JUNE SYMPOSIUM SHOWCASES INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TV.The arrival of interactive digital television is creating exciting opportunities for TV producers, advertisers, broadcasters, consumer electronic manufacturers, the computer industry and more than 24O million American viewers. Interactive DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. is the convergence of traditional television, computers and the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . This combination will lead to new forms of electronic commerce, video-on-demand, targeted advertising, enhanced viewing experiences and broad applications such as electronic learning and health care. NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. hosted the second annual Digital TV Application Software Environment (known as DASE DASE - Distributed Application Support Environment ) international symposium symposium In ancient Greece, an aristocratic banquet at which men met to discuss philosophical and political issues and recite poetry. It began as a warrior feast. Rooms were designed specifically for the proceedings. in June 2001, at the agency's Gaithersburg, MD, headquarters. The symposium on interactive TV and the emerging standards in the industry will include sessions on topics of interest to the entertainment industry, broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, software developers and computer hardware manufacturers. DASE Symposium 2001 is co-sponsored by NIST and the Advanced Television Systems Committee. |
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