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Title Multimedia telecommunications / [edited by] Bill Whyte
Published London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1997

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Description xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series BT telecommunications series ; 9
BT telecommunications series ; 9
Contents Preface / Bill Whyte -- 1. The many dimensions of multimedia communications / W. S. Whyte -- 2. Design of multimedia services / G. Smith and W. Jones -- 3. Generic aspects of multimedia presentation / M. D. Eyles -- 4. Services, technology and standards for broadcast-related multimedia / W. Dobbie -- 5. Servers for BT's interactive TV services / G. W. Kerr -- 6. The set-top box for interactive services / R. A. Bissell and A. Eales -- 7. Broadband multimedia delivery over copper / G. Young, K. T. Foster and J. W. Cook -- 8. On-line public multimedia kiosks / J. A. Totty -- 9. Supporting teleworking with multimedia / M. J. Gray -- 10. Desktop multimedia / T. Midwinter -- 11. Multimedia in interconnected LAN systems / W. Bunn -- 12. A review of eye-to-eye videoconferencing techniques / D. A. D. Rose and P. M. Clarke -- 13. Virtual reality - the new media? / A. S. Rogers
14. Interactive visualization and virtual environments on the Internet / G. R. Walker, J. Morphett and M. Fauth [et al.] -- 15. Yacht video system for the Whitbread Round the World Race / C. D. Woolf and D. A. Tilson
Summary In this volume, written by engineers at the centre of the development of the industry, will be found a comprehensive survey of the wide range of applications encompassed by the term 'Multimedia Telecommunications'. From broadcast television to the specifics of data communications, from entertainment to decision-making, from the human interface to the details of the technology, all are essential facets of the subjects and are treated in this volume. For all users and providers of any form of multimedia service, researchers, development engineers, computer providers or users, IT and Information System managers, change managers in business or in the entertainment industry,Multimedia Telecommunications is essential reading
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Broadband communication systems.
Broadcasting.
Multimedia systems.
Telecommunication systems.
Author Whyte, Bill.
LC no. 97069049
ISBN 0412786001