An experiment on internet live feed of baseball games

Abstract

Recently, the Internet has become a popular communication medium in which various kinds of information can be provided with world-wide coverage. Interactive information services through the Internet are also expected. The TV community is now trying to develop a new service model of TV broadcasting merged with interactive information services like the WWW over the Internet. In this paper, we report an experiment on a multimedia information service about a 14-day baseball championship as an attempt to merge the Internet with TV broadcasting. We designed a new feed system for the Internet since conventional systems are not suitable for feeding multimedia information to the Internet. This paper compares TV broadcasting and information services on the Internet, presents the design concept of our new feed system, and analyzes it through the experiment.