Deck 15: The Cable and Television Industries and Your Home

Question 1

VOD and VDT are tools used to record video programs on portable digital video devices.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The potential delivery of information services to the home has benefited from ______.

A) more regulation
B) deregulation

Answer 2

deregulation

Question 3

______ is the name of the cable system in Columbus, Ohio that helped pioneer interactive television services.57

A) Cube
B) Qubed
C) Spectrum
D) Qube

Answer 3

Qube

Question 4

______ has helped conventional cable systems to enhance their information carrying capacity.

A) data migration
B) analog routing
C) compression techniques
D) PARs

Question 5

______ can be used to help deliver advanced/enhanced information/entertainment services to thehome.

A) STBs
B) VRDs
C) VDRs
D) BTSs
E) BTUs

Question 6

______ can be used to record and store television programming; they have certain advantages over a conventional VCR.

A) VPRs
B) SDARs
C) DABs
D) PVRs

Question 7

In your opinion, does any one industry (cable-television-satellite) have the advantage in developing an integrated information/entertainment utility? Why or why not?

Question 8

Your home power line may serve as an information distribution system.