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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."

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  1. Re:How about.... by MeanMF · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a $200 sony all in one remote that tries to provide a single interface to all my stuff. Problem is that it does not quite cut it, the Onkyo receiver does not quite do what it should.

    Try this. I have everything programmed into one $30 Radio Shack remote, including an Onkyo receiver. It takes a little work, but it's definitely worth the effort.

  2. MHEG by albino+eatpod · · Score: 3, Informative

    The UK digital systems have been using MHEG for the past 5 years for our interactive service, and although slow at first (mainly due to STB problems) it's getting pretty fast now. BBC's BBCi is superb, and offers everything our our teletext system used to.

    Some of the interactive services are a bit naff, but some are pretty interesting.