Never Mind the Quality?

Synopsis: The worlds of television, computers and telecommunications are intersecting. There are new ways of making programmes, and new ways of delivering them through digital technology. In a few years, television as we know it will cease to exist; the proliferation of channels means that hundreds of channels are now available. The potential of the multi-channel age for direct selling is already being tested: Videonet is a video and shopping-on-demand service that comes down a phone line, and goods can be purchased immediately via the television. But there may be less futuristic ways of developing the new technology: a group of protesters in a forest in Kent are harnessing digital technology to help save a forest. Using the Internet to publicise their protest, they take control of the media in a democratic way.
Series: Digital Communications, Course T305
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.
Year of production: 1999
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Information technology
Keywords: digital telecommunications; digital television

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