Thursday, May 29, 2008

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.


By Fady Naddour.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

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.

by Fady Naddour

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.

by Fady Naddour

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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..

By Fady Naddour

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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.

By Fady Naddour

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

Monday, May 5, 2008

The Obstacles that face Interactive Television


Commercial Broadcasters that serve the market are facing some obstacles that prevent them from adopting interactive television,and interactive technologies because they must serve the desires of their customers,earn a return on investment for their investors,in collaboration with many factors:

-Implementing a return path in far areas that have no technology

-Implementing a return path interaction in areas that have lack in infrastructure.

-coding of set top boxes by cable operators and box manufactureres.

-The cable monopoly rules that are followed in many countries served by cable Tv operators.

-The competition from service providers and Internet based content.

-Technical and bussiness road blocks


By Fady Naddour


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