Intelligent Television: A Testbed for Multimedia Information Filtering

We set up an environment in which a database is lled with television data from several information channels. Philips Sound and Vision provides a prototype television that is very suited for this application. The combination of television and personal computer is used to investigate new paradigms to enhance the traditional television interface. Multimedia database technology provides the basis for integration of the program guide in the television interface and the automatical recording of potentially interesting programs. The television helps the user to cope with his information overload. The experimental implementation reveals improvements for the development of the intelligent television. Moreover, the system provides for a testbed environment for multimedia information ltering.