BBC News On Interactive TV

Do you want to catch up with news headlines,get to know whats happening around you,and know hows the weather today,or even find if your team has won..?

Well this has come true,and its your choice to do that by video or text by BBC service through the red button on your digital television.If you have a sattelite at home,you can catch the news in videos whenever you want or see what happened aroun you by reading in text.

Easy To Use:

On the right side of your television,a coloured menu will show up.If the menu has a link to the news Multi screen,its simply to use the arrow keys or you can key in 1001,the news mutiscreen number,on your hand set and press select.

Watching News Interactive:

It include the headlines,sport,the weather forcast,entertainement headlines and deeply coverage new stories,and live news.On freeview,there is a four screen version that offers headlines and detailed news stories.

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Interactive Tv Sponsorship

This is an article about interactive tv sponsorships..as we know tv sponsorships is increasing and becoming a part of brands activities.Digital platforms allow brands to get more out of this sponsorship by utilising a new content,and an increasing brand among audience.so when u press the yellow button on the remote control,viewers will have the chance to see further information,wich makes them enjoy and interact through additional content,games and competitions.

The major benefits of Interactive Sponsorship:

-Deeper brand experience.

-Ability to reach more than 15 millions of people through digital sattelite platform.

-Create a dialogue with the audience.

-Strengthen brand experience.

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Sky Vegas:a Current Form Of Interactive Games

Sky Vegas is an Interactive entertainement channel that broadcast gambling programming.It allow users to interact from their homes and win.Its a new home of all the favourite slots and table games as well as some special games that is not founf anywhere else.Sky Vegas has 3 products such as: Skybet,Skypoker,and Skybings.

Sky vegas doesn't need any downloads.You can choose from more than 30 games from Roulette and Blackjack to Deal or no Deal and Chain reactor.You should have Sky Tv in order to enhance your entertainement with sky vegas.

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Interactive Tv Games

Interactive Tv games are the newest craze all aover the world.Video and online game lovers are enjoying these new digital games where players can interact with the television in variuos virtual situations.
How interactive games developed??
The idea for this interactive TV games developed to entertain kids and children.It's an educational way for children to spend thier time,but as the development progressed,it was discovered that interactive games is a hit to all ages and generations.The interactive games broadened their spectrum because the potential to make money was recognized.
Some examples of Interactive Games:Sky Vegas Live,Hulk game,Who wants to be a millionaire,skuzzboarding,and the lottery.

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Broadband MSN Tv

In the year 2000,a company called Rogers cable partenerd with Microsoft,to produce "RogersInteractive Television ".It had a great impact on its users as the service enabled Rogers users to enter the web through Tv Sets.It also made them create their own websites,shop online,chat,and access mails.This was the first broadband of MSN TV.Later in the year 2005,Microsoft introduced MSN TV2,its the same as MSN,as it allows the use of a mouse,along with that it uses the TV as an output device.For cheap devices,the cost of licensing the operating system is substantial.For microsoft,it is like actualizing a sunk cost,but when microsoft released the MSN TV model,than they got standard PC architecture and used windows software with few changes.This made a standard PC to be used with few changes,this allwed MSNTV2 to stay in current.

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MSN Tv:a current form of interactive television

MSN Tv or Web Tv,is a name of a thin client which uses a television for display,and an online service that supports it.It was firstly produced by Microsoft,and taken to MSN.
The MSN Tv product is an adaptor that makes a TV set connected to the net,usually for web browsing and e-mails.The setup includes a web browser,wireless,and a connection to the internet.The concept was founded by Steve Perlman,as he saw a commercial that eneded by displaying the website for the company,he often recalls this as a Campbells Soup Advertisement.It occured that if the television audience were able by a device to augment television viewing with recieving infos through the Tv,then perhaps the web address could be a signal,and the television a conduit.
Since the device was a web browser,the cost of licensing an operating system could be avoided.The box feature such cutting edge technology and the smart card reader,neither of which ever caught on for Internet clients..

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TiVo: a Current Form Of Interactive Television

Tivo is a brand of digital video recorder.It is a device that attracts television programming to hard disk storage inorder to view later.The main functions TiVo provides is that it provide television programming schedule,and a recording option based on this schedule,it also gets infos about the programs for the next two weeks,description of programs,regular and guest actors whether the programs are repeated or new.
Tivo recording programs based on viewing habits,called TiVo suggestions.Users can rate programs from 3 ways and are combined to create a recommendation,based on what tivo users with similar viewing habits watch.For instance,if the watcher likes the simpsons and Family Guy then another Tivo user who watched just the Simpsons might get a recommendations for the other two shows.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivo