Provision of continuous VCR functions in interactive broadcast VoD systems

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 460-471

  Poon, W F ^a   Lo, K T ^a,c   Feng, J ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Hong Kong Polytechnic University ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Interactive TV; VCR functionality; Video broadcast; Video on demand (VoD)

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE TV; VCR FUNCTIONALITY; VIDEO BROADCAST;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; VIDEO ON DEMAND; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

EID: 29044433529     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2005.857607     Document Type: Article

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