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Ars Electronica on Demand
Video On Demand anticipates the future of television. Instead of the viewer being at the mercy of rigid programming schedules, the video program is custom-tailored to the viewer's tastes.
In the world of digital television, the capability of putting together an individual program of films, news, sports, and entertainment will soon be available to each viewer.
Video On Demand opens up the Ars Electronica Center's archive and its treasure-trove of media art. Along with documentary videos from Ars Electronica Festivals of past years and a broad cross-section of the best works of animation submitted for the Prix Ars Electronica, Video On Demand also makes available broadcasts from the ORF series "Modern Times" which deal with the development of new technologies.
Ars Electronica On Demand consolidates television and computing into a single medium, whereby the viewer has the option of accessing information in text form which complements the video clips. The video archive is undergoing permanent expansion; within a few years, it will have grown into a gigantic media pool which will permit the entire history of this media art to be (re)constructed. A fiber-optic network and a high-performance video pump already provide a glimpse into the Internet of the future. The picture quality and the transmission speed within the computer network will no longer be any different from the highest television standards. Text, video and audio will grow together into one hypermedium.
Source: PILO
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