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To: flickerful who wrote (9410)	6/21/1999 6:44:00 AM
From: Thomas Kirwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

TVW - More Features Planned for England's Parliament Channel Excerpt from The Sunday Times article previously posted...... Message 10198250 At present the site shows live debates and allows users to call up any action they have missed in recent days. However, according to Phil Haggar of CCT Productions, which provides the video feed and MP database for the site, there are plans to add more features. He says: "We're at the very start of the service so it's fairly basic. If you visit the site you can just watch the debate of your choice or view whatever is going on in the House at the time. However, we are going to make it far more interesting. "First, the site is due to move over to RealNetworks' latest G2 software. This means we will be able to send captions with the video feed so we can say who somebody is when they are speaking and provide additional information." Haggar says the next big step will be to make the site more interactive by giving users access to a vast depth of video footage from the past as well as detailed text information regarding each speaker. "By the end of the summer you should have a caption that sits alongside the image to explain who is speaking. This will also provide a hypertext link so you can download his or her home page or get further details about their politics, such as how they've voted in the past," he says. "The really interesting thing we're working on is a search facility. This would allow somebody on the site to tap in an MP's name or a keyword for an issue they are interested in. The web service would then offer back a whole list of video clips where the subject or the MP featured in a debate. It would allow you to find out, say, if an MP who is talking about fox-hunting has always held the same view," he says.