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To some degree, viewers already have accepted a certain amount of fake interactivity by channel surfing with their remotes, ordering pay-for-view movies and running up their credit-card bills on the Home Shopping Network.
在某種程度上，觀眾已接受了一部分假冒的相互作用，如用遙控器快速選擇頻道，預定付錢觀看的電視，以及利用居家購物網購物，以致信用卡帳單迅速上升。
Moving beyond phase one, into what Caruso calls "true interactive," will require major changes in the technological and regulatory infrastructure.
要跨過第一階段，進入卡魯索所謂的"真正相互作用"階段，首先需要技術和基礎設施方面有較大的變化。
Today's television cables will likely be replaced by fiber-optic cables, which are capable of transmitting much more data at higher speeds.
今天所用的那種電視電線可能被光纖電纜所代替，因為光纖電纜的傳送信息量更大，傳送速度更快。
Either a government agency or the communications industry itself will have to set a performance standard so that different networks can connect with each other.
為使不同的網絡彼此連通，必須由政府機關或是通訊部門自己制定一個統一的運作標準。
At home, viewers may have to learn to use a TV monitor that functions more like a computer screen fronting for a gigantic hard disc full of all kinds of data, everything from games and movies to specially created programs.
電視接收器若是配上一個大容量硬盤，里面儲存從游戲節目到影片到各種特制節目等各種信息，那么電視接收器的功能便頗有點類似計算機顯示器屏幕了，觀眾們恐怕得經過學習才會使用。
The shows of the future may be the technological great grandchildren of current CD-ROM titles.
未來的節目可能是今天的CD-ROM(光盤只讀存儲器)視盤的技術后代。
These are compact discs that store data instead of music and can play on either television or computer screens.
CD-ROM視盤是一種儲存各種其他信息而非音樂信息的光盤，它既可以在電視機屏幕上播放，也可以在計算機屏幕上播放。
To play CD-ROMs today, you need a special machine. There are at least four models on the market, and titles produced for one format won't play on another.
但今天放CD-ROM視盤需要用一種專用播放機，這種播放機市面上出售的至少有四種不同的型號，適于一種型號的播放機的視盤換到別種型號的播放機上便不能播放。
CD-ROMs do provide e glimpse of what the future might hold, however. A number of companies, including Newsweek, are developing multimedia products that combine text, video, sound and still photographs.
盡管如此，現有的這種視盤還是有助于我們窺視未來技術發展的前景。包括《新聞周刊》出版公司在內的許多家公司都在積極研制融圖文聲像于一體的多媒體產品。
The result is what may someday be a powerful new medium With no set story line as in a book or magazine.
其結果也許是將來某一天研制出一種新的信息傳播媒體。這種新媒體不像一般書刊一樣有固定的信息內容。
