1.   Rich men had television receivers and videos, middling men had receivers only, or no television at all.

2.   CD-I is specifically designed to deliver high quality multimedia on a domestic television receiver.

3.   Like CD-I, the system plugs directly into a television receiver and the CDTV user operates it with a remote, infra-red handset.

4.   Alongside the sale of the television receivers themselves, a massive broadcast and cable industry has emerged.

5.   The minimum requirements for this would be a television receiver equipped with teletext and microcomputer access to one of the national networks such as Prestel.

6.   And as it turns out, using the consumer-grade digital television receivers currently available in stores, in many urban, indoor locations the system fails.

7.   And thousands of consumers would find that their digital television receivers no longer worked.

8.   But digital television receivers also hold the potential to enrich the medium with user interaction of the sort now available on computers.

9.   But he and other company executives acknowledged that consumers might be slow to begin using computers as television receivers.