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PROJECT NAME:

Tokyo Metropolitan Multimedia Experiments

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Bay area, Tokyo City

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Association of Tokyo Multimedia System

  MAILING ADDRESS: Information office, Tokyo Metropolitan 
                   Government 
                   Marunouchi-Higashi 3 Gou Chosha 6th Floor, 
                   Marunouchi 3 chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 
                   100, Japan
  PHONE/FAX: +81-3-3212-1275/+81-3-3212-2380

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

This project is to demonstrate multimedia info-communication services which integrate telecommunication and broadcasting, for example, video on demand, ITV-shopping, telephone & PC-communication services by CATV network and public information services.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

To investigate how multimedia can change people's lifestyles and to introduce them to the Information Society.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

This project will investigate how multimedia can change people's lifestyles and to introduce them to the Information Society.

TARGET GROUPS:

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Members of the Association of Tokyo Multimedia System

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

A fiber optic/coaxial cable hybrid network will be built, through which ATM and MPEG2 technology will be used.

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

The project will demonstrate a prototype of the Information Society.

TIME SCHEDULE TO COMPLETION:

The experiments are scheduled to begin in 1996.

EXPECTED COST:

under consideration