ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologys and Services

A European Commission research and development funding programme including digital broadcasting and next-generation Internet. Projects were as follows: Motivate: Mobile Digital Terrestrial Television. Crabs / Cabsinet: next generation LMDS for broadband local loop connection at 40GHz iTTi: Return Channel for DVB-T. MoMuSys: mobile multimedia systems. Diceman: using new technologies to exploit AV archives. CustomTV: MPEG4/7 object based interactivity over MPEG2 transport streams. STORit: Use of local hard disc store to enhance functionality in home entertainment systems. Infobridge: Promotion and dissemination of information from the ACTS projects ACTS has now finished and future work in this area continues under the IST framework programmes.