Interactive home information system

A system in some embodiments PRACTICE woos cable service CONVENTIONAL WAYS TRADITIONAL WHILE PROVIDING INFORMATION SERVICES INTERACTIVE TELEVISION ON AN INQUIRY USING A switching arrangement, and does so while allowing both types of SERVICE WILL BE ACCESSED, as in the past, by the simple action channel selection. In a practical embodiment PREFERIDA, AN INFORMATION SYSTEM INTERACTIVE TELEVISION, PROVIDING SERVICE TELEVISION INTERACTIVE cable when MATES TO A SYSTEM OF CABLE TELEVISION, has (i) A SOURCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN A HEAD (11) TO PROVIDE A MULTIPLE SERVICES INFORMATION AND (II) a distribution network (68B) SERVICE INFORMATION SERVICES TO RELEASE INFORMATION TO BE PAID TELEVISION. SEVERAL architectures provide.