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Interactive television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interactivity with content that is related to what is on TV The least understood, Interactivity with TV related content or "coactivity", may have most promise to radically alter how we watch TV over the next decade. Interactive TV is often described as "lean back" interaction, as users are typically relaxing in the living room environment with a remote control in one hand. For one-screen services, interactivity is supplied by the manipulation of the API of the particular software installed on a set-top box, referred to as 'middleware' due to its intermediary position in the operating environment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interactive_television   (1131 words)

Interactive TV The reason interactive TV has not yet become a reality is many, but a few of the more well discussed ones are that Cablers have not yet figured out how to exploit this key strategic advantage in a large-scale, economically viable way. One, one of the biggest problems with the current/previous interactive TV model is that application developers must port their works to different environments. In essence, the interactive data is already being sent to all users, it's just a matter of whether they ask their box to go out and grab it. www.rogertowne.com /InteractiveTV.htm   (11561 words)

Interactive TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Interactive TV Interactive TV I don't understand all the excitement over this new technology called Interactive TV. To my mind, the one and only virtue of TV is that it is NOT interactive. Indeed, TV is the greatest mental exerciser since the Rubik's Cube. www.pfdstudio.com /itv.html   (520 words)

What Is Interactive Television Interactive TV (iTV) is any television with what is called a “return path”. Interactive Goodies: You will be able to pause live TV or record shows. Spy TV was written as a concise viewer’s guide to the hardware, the software, and the privacy issues of this new medium. www.whitedot.org /issue/iss_story.asp?slug=shortSpyTV   (2371 words)

BW Online | September 7, 2000 | Interactive TV's Really Big Picture Interactive services, including linking to additional information on customized Web sites, instant messaging friends via your TV, ordering a pizza, and fast-forwarding through the commercials during a "live" television program, are going to change watching TV as we know it. Interactive TV will generate $20 billion in revenue by 2004, according to Forrester Research: $11 billion in advertising, $7 billion in commerce, and $2 billion in subscription fees. Interactive TV is also allowing advertisers to sneak a peek directly into homes. www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/sep2000/nf2000097_655.htm   (1728 words)

Spy TV - Programming That Watches You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Your TV will be able to show you something, monitor how you respond, and then show you something else based on what you did. Whoever controls your interactive TV will be able to spend years of your life just trying different combinations of programming until they find out what makes you do things. Write to other interactive TV providers in your area, explaining that you are will not sign up unless they provide you privacy as the default. www.spyinteractive.com /spyinteractive   (1828 words)

Media Visions - iTV | Warner's Qube The interactive TV ventures of today can trace their roots back to an Ohio college town. About 100 percent of Qube's interactive content was produced locally in our studios, some of it very elaborate, all of it live. Despite strong evidence of consumer popularity, fundamentally, the cable industry decided that interactive TV was not affordable, not yet, anyway. www.media-visions.com /itv-qube.html   (2936 words)

Interactive TV Research - UITV.INFO PhD Theses: There is a growing number of interactive television PhD theses, which is an indication of the maturity of the field. Collections of papers, Books: There is a growing number of text books and collections of papers on interactive TV for academics, researchers and practitioners. The 5th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV07) will be hosted by CWI (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. uitv.info   (801 words)

Playing Games With Interactive TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Today, we look at Buzztime's Interactive TV games; Wednesday, we will focus on Comcast's HDTV On-Demand; and Friday, Comcast's on-demand Video Dating service. I was ready to do battle against my fellow TV experts in the Baltimore-Washington area when the screen alerted me that I was joining the game in progress. Interactive TV games can be successful if they enhance the experience of watching television, rather than intruding on it. www.tvpredictions.com /buzztime041005.html   (762 words)

BBC - Digital - TV Digital TV Digital is the new way of broadcasting TV. Simply pay for the equipment to receive more than 30 TV channels, plus interactive features and more than 20 radio stations. All TV in the UK is being switched to digital between 2008 and 2012. www.bbc.co.uk /digital/tv   (197 words)

Interactive TV Unchained - 10/31/2005 - Multichannel News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) That can be considered an interactive application, because viewers only respond to ads specifically targeted to the subject matter on their screens. The only “interactive” applications with proven interest are cable’s on-demand video systems, in which a user pays $4 to watch a movie; and the deployment of digital video recorders, which may pull in $10 a month from a subscriber, who is allowed to watch anything that the machine stores. TV Works is developing software, for instance, that allows an application provider to write one piece of code for any combination of headend systems, set-top box, interactive guide and VOD server a system operator might have. www.multichannel.com /article/CA6278951.html?display=Top+Stories   (2765 words)

Interactive TV As such interactive TV may become a major route for capturing information in the future. However, if you have a specific TV system you wish to target, we would be happy to work with you to confirm that Mandoforms works with this system. So, if your preferred interactive TV system would benefit from specific support within Mandoforms we would be happy to work with you to investigate adding this. www.mandoforms.com /initiatives/interactive_tv.html   (225 words)

BBC News | TV AND RADIO | This is BBC News - on interactive TV Initially, BBC News Interactive will be available to 5.5 million digital satellite viewers and probably to more than a million cable viewers later next year. BBC News Interactive is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from any BBC channel. Links to more TV and Radio stories are at the foot of the page. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1664618.stm   (493 words)

World Screen - TV Interactive SAN FRANCISCO, September 11: The mobile TV audience grew 45 percent to 3.7 million subscribers in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year, according to Telephia, which also found that news, weather and sports were the most popular mobile offerings. LOS ANGELES, September 8: Several Fox Interactive Media sites, including MySpace.com and FOX.com, are offering up the first 7 minutes of the first episode of The Simpsons’ 18th season, in advance of its television launch this weekend. Interactive television services are once again attracting new interest--this time, however, with more modest expectations and more reasonable business plans. www.worldscreen.com /tvinteractive.php   (1315 words)

Interactive TV Top.Box.News @ Ruel.Net Set-Top Page - Set Top and TV Technology News [ http://ruel.net/top.box.news/ ] PCs with TV Tuners will grow at 50.6% CAGR from 2004 to 2008." (CAGR is "Compound Annual Growth Rate") As for companies to watch, the news announcement states, "Disney, Microsoft and Intel are positioned to benefit the most.... Replay TV and TiVo were both in financial situations after the dot-com crash where there wasn't money to do ads. Cameron's DigitalVision service is similar to satellite TV services in that it is 100% digital and offers up to 138 channels of digital entertainment. ruel.net /top.box/news.htm   (951 words)

Develop and Code: Interactive TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Interactive TV is making all of this, and more, possible today. Interactive TV enables you to weave text, JavaScript, panels, menus, and buttons into a broadcast to create a unique TV experience that gets your viewers more involved with a program. Instructions for retrieving that content and for displaying it within a TV browser are known as triggers. developer.msntv.com /Develop/IntTv.asp   (268 words)

Interactive TV Advertising The show will examine the impact Interactive TV Advertising will have on branding; how campaigns are being benchmarked worldwide and the different models being used; as well as the impact PVR’s and on-demand TV will have on advertising strategies. There will be a variety of advertiser case studies with a look at the role different agencies are playing in the process; how accountable and effective interactive TV is for direct response, and how the medium is measured; then a discussion on Future Advertising Models and Technologies. The focus is for creative agencies and advertisers to learn the key areas involved in creating an interactive TV advert – what works and what doesn’t – and how to design for this space to yield the best result. www.interactive-tv-advertising.com   (618 words)

Interactive TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) We cover all aspects of interactive TV, from ITV to IPTV, PVR to VOD, offering a unique insight into the next generation of interactive audio and video media. Send in interactive TV news or announcements and contribute comments or articles to informitv. Ultra High-Definition TV has a resolution that is 16 times that of HDTV and has 24 channel sound. informitv.com   (227 words)

Become.com - Shop results for interactive tv game Interactive roleplaying video game aimed at tween girls, Choose new clothes pick a different hairstyle make new friends and decorate your room... This innovative Interactive Video Game System from Go Go TV puts your kids on screen and in the action with games that get them up off the couch... This is the interactive plug-and-play video game that is officially licensed by the makers of Golden Tee, played by more than 10 million... www.become.com /shop?q=interactive+tv+game   (222 words)

A+E Interactive: TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) There is no doubt that ex-NFL superstar Emmitt Smith (24 out of 30) and "actor" and tv show host Mario Lopez (26) are the stars to beat. Depending on how you look at the richly detailed mythology of the ABC hit series ""Lost,'' it's either a monstrous glop of fanboy silliness or the case of a fiercely creative production team reveling in the joys of multimedia. Two hours after he sang in front of 17,000 people at HP Pavilion, American Idol winner Taylor Hicks played guitar and harmonica and sang for about 150 devoted fans in an after midnight "surprise" San Jose club show that was about as secret as the giant searchlights painting the sky out front. blogs.mercurynews.com /aei/tv/index.html   (2771 words)

Techdirt: How Interested Are People In Interactive TV? Since before the web even existed, we've been hearing stories about how interactive TV was "the next big thing." However, throughout trial after trial after trial, it always turned out that people didn't actually care much for interactive TV. Perhaps that's because, in most cases, it wasn't so much "interactive" as it was "enhanced TV." The real interactivity was found online, which was a totally different environment than TV. The only part of interractive TV with a future is programmes on demand - which will probably do better on the internet anway in the long run. techdirt.com /articles/20050906/028212_F.shtml   (760 words)

My Interactive TV presents Hypnosis. The first interactive movie on line! To introduce producers and broadcasters of the value and validity of the My Interactive TV concept, the authors have produced a pilot episode. The writers, Ali Bali and Violaine Meunier, admit that the complexity of writing for an interactive format is challenging, but that enthusiastic responses from their first audiences convinced them that the effort was worthwhile. In a poll taken after viewing the film, two other points were made by early screening audiences: people like that their choices are taken into account instantly and enjoy being given the opportunity to participate at several moments in the film, not only at the end of the film. www.my-interactive.tv   (479 words)

OpenTV - Home OpenTV is one of the world’s leading providers of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television. Advanced advertising solutions that comprise addressability, interactivity, and sales and inventory management. Participation television, a modular solution for a truly cross-platform, interactive experience. www.opentv.com   (170 words)

Media Visions - Interactive TV Reports Deep literacy invites understanding interactive and digital television trends and issues, so each of us can help shape the future we are creating together. The long fight over whether to build a proposed digital TV "supertower" to serve metro Denver may be entering its final phase, yet the outcome remains as uncertain as ever. Interactive TV middeleware popular in UK reports US cable deals with HITS and TVN; still expecting promised ExhoStar Dish push in the States. media-visions.com /itv.html   (1398 words)

Interactive TV Millions of customers subscribe to digital TV packages, but most are unaware there are more free free to air channels than you think, many more people would like to see these channels, but refuse to pay monthly to do so. Free-to-air digital TV channels provide clearer pictures and sound than traditional analogue TV, and are broadcast in widescreen. Millions of customers subscribe to digital TV packages, but most are unaware there are more free free to air channels than you think. www.igbglobal.co.uk /html/interavtive_tv.html   (1854 words)

Welcome to Orca Interactive's Website Operators can improve ROI by using multiple vendors and multiple generations of digital STBs, and complement the TV service with features that can be implemented across PC and wireless devices without additional operating costs. Operators can develop their own Service User Interface (SUI) by using the RiGHTv SUI SDK, to fully exploit the value of their brand and take advantage of the information they have about their subscribers' habits and preferences. The XPVR application enables subscribers to enjoy an entirely new TV watching experience by letting them watch "what they want, when they want to". www.orca.tv   (405 words)

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News • TV Watch: The season premiere of 'Survivor,' and more Intraday data provided by ComStock, an Interactive Data Company and subject to the Terms of Use. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by FT Interactive Data. www.cnn.com   (520 words)

Home | E-consultancy.com Interactive TV convergence, digital tv, enhanced TV, EPG, interactive advertising, interactive tv, participation TV, red button, set top box, Sky, Sky Active, t-commerce, video on demand This 40-page report commissioned by BT agilemedia, and written by Steelside and E-consultancy, looks at what the main UK broadcasters will be doing with interactivity over the coming years. Best known for its newsletter, itvt provides concise, original coverage of industry developments, technologies, content projects, and the people working to build the interactive TV industry. www.e-consultancy.com /topic/interactive-tv   (243 words)

INTERACTIVE TV TODAY [itvt]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Our new column, entitled "Legends of ITV" and written by interactive TV industry veteran, Patrick Donoghue, takes a wry look at some of the legendary creations that fueled the early years of the ITV industry. TiVo offers an interactive advertising solution that enables the consumer to pause television and engage in a branded advertising experience, without missing even a second of the TV show a viewer is watching. The free service, which has been available in South Carolina since last November, allows the operator's digital customers to restart TV shows that are already in progress (note: it does not allow them to fast-forward through commercials): an icon alerts viewers that a show is Start Over-enabled. www.itvt.com /wvijitvtissue6.75pt2.html   (5147 words)

DigiGuide: The Best TV Guide with UK Radio and UK TV Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Let's not forget about TV library with just over 43,000 programmes and over 460,000 programme episodes. I used to buy a paper every weekend just for the TV Guide otherwise I wouldn't know what was on during the week, although they were never correct about the movies coming on. You spend hundreds of pounds every year subscribing to hundreds of digital TV and radio channels yet finding out if your favourite actor or show is on is nothing but a chore. www.digiguide.com   (559 words)

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