Viewers involved in the Cambridge interactive Television Trial are now able to access enhanced Teletext services. Pages from Teletext are delivered without the delay, and viewers have more navigational controls over the service. The Teletext services will be further enhanced to test a hyper-Teletext news service, with links to other services such as the Internet. Tests will be carried out to examine what will be possible on the new Electronic Newspapers of the future, (where bandwidth will be higher for faster text and higher quality graphics and pictures than is available today). The enhanced Teletext services have already proved “hugely popular”, according to the ITC.
The Cambridge digital interactive Television Trial which launched in September 1994, gives users access to a variety of interactive services from a control centre in Cambridge. The on-demand services include movies, education, games, news, documentaries and weather. Viewers access these when they wish and manipulate them by using a remote control as if the pictures were playing from their own video recorder.
James Conway, ITC: 0171 306 7744
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