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Interactive Television Systems

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This chapter presents an extended version of the article published in IEEE Computer in May of 1995 [F+95].

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Borko Furht

  2. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, USA

    Deven Kalra

  3. Scientific Atlanta, Norcross, Georgia, USA

    Arturo A. Rodriguez

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Furht, B., Kalra, D., Rodriguez, A.A. (1996). Interactive Television Systems. In: Furht, B. (eds) Multimedia Tools and Applications. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 359. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1387-8_7

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