tv broadcasting right is one of the main sources of financial income for football clubs in the world. however, this right has not been legalized in iran yet and has caused many serious problems for iranian football clubs. the aim of this study was to investigate legal gaps and obstacles and to provide strategies to improve the relationships between football clubs and islamic republic of iran br...

A visual communication system for power-and bandwidth-limited channels, which gracefully degrades as the channel deteriorates is presented. The system is based on joint optimization of subband coding and 81-QAM through robust mappings between the source coder space and the modulation space. A novel deenition for measuring system ee-ciency, based on a comparison to pure analog transmission, is u...

The integration of semantic technologies and television services is an important innovation in traditional broadcasting in order to improve services delivered to end users in an extended home environment: new methods emerge for getting TV content via the Web and interacting with TV content on end users devices. This paper gives a short description of a Personalized Semantic News scenario in the...

Digital broadcasting enables interactive TV, which presents new challenges for interactive content creation. Besides the technology for streaming and viewing, tools and systems are under development that extend traditional TV studios with virtual set environments. This presentation reviews current technology and describes the requirements for such systems. Interoperability over the production, ...

SANTTSUR is a pilot project which was set up to evaluate the benefit of, live, interactive, digital TV broadcasting, combined with video conferencing and access to the Internet, as an integrated distance learning medium for doctors in basic surgical training. A series of thirty 90-minute TV broadcasts has been developed, aimed at doctors in the working in 26 hospitals across the UK and Ireland....

BACKGROUND In this study, the nature of food commercials in children's television (TV) was monitored and analyzed; simultaneously, the relationship between recalling TV food commercials and children's interest in them and in the consumption of the same food products was evaluated. METHODS A total of 108 h children's programs broadcast on two channels (Two and Amouzesh) of Islamic Republic of ...

A new regulatory debate has sprung up around the pricing of TV networks on cable and satellite systems. Many argue that bundling networks on tiers, rather than selling channels individually, is anti-consumer and forces families to purchase programming they don't value and often find ofensive. The Federal Communications Commission, after issuing sharply conflicting reports on the subject, is con...

he growth of digital TV in UK homes has been much more rapid than the penetration of the Internet, which has itself grown at a phenomenal rate. The digital TV services started on 1 October 1998 with satellite broadcasting followed by terrestrial broadcasting on 15 November 1998 and more recently by cable services. By mid-2000, about one-and-a-half years after the start of digital services, 5 mi...