Abstract: . . .  engineering development projects, reports on the broadcast coverage of large-scale events, etc. The EBU Technical Review is distributed to the engineering divisions of all the EBU Active and Associate Member-organizations throughout Europe and the rest of the world. It also has wide circulation among broadcast equipment manufacturers, universities and other specialist institutions. For an Author’s Information Pack, please contact: The Editor EBU Technical Review Case postale 67 CH-1218 Grand Saconnex (GE) . . .
. . .  are interested in theoretical studies, explanations of new techniques, descriptions of major engineering development projects, reports on the broadcast coverage of large-scale events, etc. The EBU Technical Review is distributed to the engineering divisions of all the EBU Active and Associate Member-organizations throughout Europe and the rest of the world. It also has wide circulation among broadcast equipment manufacturers, universities and other specialist institutions. For an Author’s Information . . .
. . .  a worldwide forum on interactive multimedia television broadcasting. Known provisionally as “World Vision 2000 ”, the forum would bring together all the major industries claiming a stake in the audiovisual markets of the 3rd millennium. World Vision 2000 would draw back from the situation and ask questions on how convergence can be made to happen, how the new media will shape society, and how to help the world become less of a place with information “haves” and “have nots”. Above all, the forum would . . .
. . .  people who can represent the broadcasters’ strategic planning interests, as a means of ensuring that the systems are endorsed (at least in principle) at as early astage as possible by the people who will be expected to implement them and use them. The proposed World Forum responds uniquely to the newly-perceived need for the opening of a dialogue involving the developed and the devel- oping countries, and the researchers and indus- trial interests in all related fields, with a view to the establishment . . .
. . .  opportunities for the further development and expansion of these systems in the early years of the 21st century are huge, with forecasts that there will soon be about 200 million mobile communication transceivers and about 2 billion television receivers in use worldwide. Yet another area which should be examined care- fully by broadcasters is the effective interfacing of traffic in these diverse return-channel networks and the associated data-handling systems. After all, there is little point in encouraging . . .
. . .  interactivity and multimedia elements in the context of world-wide social development. Acknowledgements The Author is grateful to all those who have par- ticipated creatively in the many discussions lead- ing to the preparation of the proposal for the World Forum: Dr. G.T. Waters (Director, EBU Technical Department and Secretary, EBU Tech- nical Committee), Mr. Om P. Khushu (ABU, Chairman, Inter-Union Technical Committee), Mr. D. Wood (Head of New Technology, EBU), Mr. K.P. Davies (CBC), Mr. G. Dupont (UNESCO) . . .
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