Tuning In To iTV - Interactive TV Apps w/XML

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."

Comments

Used for good or evil?

[PD]

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.