A Cable Pipe-Dream?
'People who take this into their home become addicted and can't leave it.' This is a box which not only gives viewers in Columbus, Ohio, a choice of 30 television channels but the chance of answering back as well.
The Japanese have gone a step further. With a camera in your living-room, you can be seen answering back. In Wiltshire, Swindon locals walk into a shop off the High Street, borrow a camera and make a film about- decrepit council housing - and the council can answer back. Around the world, as more homes are linked to cable, people are finding a different way to use television a way in which they can take part.
Peter Fiddick of The Guardian asks if it's all a path to electronic democracy or just a new video toy for unfranchised kids?
Produced by MARYSE ADDISON