VIDEO-ON-DEMAND and shopping in 3D will be available over the Internet within
a year, thanks to two new data compression techniques. Anyone with a standard
56k modem and an ordinary telephone line will be able to take advantage of the
new services.
The techniques are likely to produce a spate of new applications. John
Kingsbury, executive editor of BBC Online, says the BBC is very interested in
making the most of its 50 years of television archives. “This is certainly a
technology that we could be interested in.”
Forbidden Technologies, a high-tech start-up based in South London, says it
will…
