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Tuning In To iTV - Interactive TV Apps w/XML

Posted by Hemos on from the the-glory-and-promise-of-settop dept.

Suhani writes "The dream of using your remote control to interact with television broadcast shows has finally become a reality, thanks to interactive television (iTV). Here, John Papageorge explores the opportunities and challenges of creating applications for the set-top box platforms (such as OpenTV, AOLTV, and Worldgate) that allow for interactive television."

7 comments

  1. Feline Poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck all of you motherfucking LambdaMOOer fuckheads! That's fucking right!

    1. Re:Feline Poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Two in a row, reverse order between http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/18/134724 7&mode=nested&tid=179 and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/18/144625 5&mode=nested&tid=156 - booya. I'd like to thank my new computer, and the fact that by subscribing I didn't get slowed down by the advertisements. Rock on, and fuck y'all, you LambdaMOOers.

  2. Used for good or evil? by PD · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can imagine that there are those out there salivating at the prospect of showing a character using a product and then providing an interaction - "Would you like a (product) right now? Just click yes." That's evil.

    What I really want to do is to use this to make the shows I watch much better. For example, in Voyager if Capt. Janeway starts to say something like "the Prime Directive could be a problem here" I want the program to pop up a screen asking me if I want her to ignore the damn directive. That would be good.

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  3. FirstPost = yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Especially in this story, which it seems nobody cares about. Too easy to get fp.

  4. m.doubleclick.net by aozilla · · Score: 1, Informative

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  5. I've had iTV for a long time. by Dead+Penis+Bird · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called "Video Games". Been interacting with my TV for years!

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    1. Re:I've had iTV for a long time. by MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM · · Score: -1

      Shut up! You are ruining /. advertisment disguised as a news article.