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iTV Standard v1.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the convergence dept.

mbstone writes "The iTV Standards Initiative this week announced the release of version 1.1 of its proposed iTV Production Standards, an open XML-schema-based scheme for interactive TV. In other words your set-top box or PC TV card would use the proposed standard to let you click on something displayed on your TV screen, for example, to answer a poll or buy the product featured in a commercial."

9 of 133 comments (clear)

  1. doughboy by BarrettAnderson · · Score: 3, Funny

    does this mean i can make the Pilsbury Doughboy laugh when i click on his bellybutton? what is this thing?

  2. Precognition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My cat has been pointing and clicking on the screen for years. Now I finally know what she was getting at.

  3. this could change forever... by mrpuffypants · · Score: 4, Funny

    the way that we watch porno...

    I truly can't wait

  4. uhhhhhhhhhhg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have to *click* on it? Can't it just buy it for me?

  5. amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A screen you could watch video on and also interact with! Amazing! This will revolutionize tele-vision!

  6. Oh great by gatesh8r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Another Mac product... oh wait... *hears Switch commercial music playing in the background* "And like, I was watching this great show on TV, and suddenly the TV was like going *beep beep beep beeeppp beep* That's when I switched to iTV."

    --
    Karma whorin' since 1999
  7. Interactive? by Cruciform · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't wait for advertisers to distort the hell out of this. In the middle of your favorite show's climax, oops, popup!

    Grrr.

  8. Re:iTV... by dubiousmike · · Score: 2, Funny

    But can interactive TV bring major corporation's websites down?

    ITV - 0
    Slashdot - 1

  9. Re:It will fail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    And indeed, why stop there. I would pay good money to remotely punch almost everyone on TV in the face, on demand. In fact it might be better to program the switch to autofire except when I tell it not to, since the cases where smiling talking heads don't deserve a knuckle sandwich are vastly outnumbered by those where they deliciously do.

    I honestly think you're onto something here.

    Look, it's the "Riesen" commercial. Whack! Sock! Bam! Chocolatey caramel everywhere.