Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Add the cable TV lines by American companies, it is likely that Japanese that can deliver digital prod- and other Asian companies will adopt one or two SPECIAL REPORT ucts and you can see the TV standards and first make the actual boxes that at- as an interactive device that lets tach to the TV, and eventually make the fully inte- the user control what he sees. grated digital TVs. Someday we could even see newspapers and The traditional publishing industry has been magazines like Time and Newsweek delivered over slow to join the digital battle but publishers are the television. finally waking up to the potential. Analysts who fol- For instance, 3DO, with its Time Warner and low the publishing industry expect it to capitalise Matsushita partners, is creating a digital front end on the technology soon, including the use of PDAs to TVs right now. Microsoft, Intel and General In- as readers for digital books. struments are set to announce a digital conversion Ironically, the educational marketis the one that box for TVs early in 1994. Also expected to have is most excited about interactive multimedia. They offerings in this area are Hewlett-Packard, Apple, want to integrate CD-ROM textbooks into their pro- Silicon Graphics and IBM. Although the standards will probably be driven grams and use digital video and the interactive process to enhance learning. Launched in the United States in 1991, Philips' CD-I player is designed to be plugged into a conventional TV RANGER and hi-fi system
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