Interactive television Interactive television Big Brother (Australia) is an Australian reality show on Network Ten. The show is based on the popular Big Brother international television series produced by Endemol where a number of contestants, usually 14 or more, live in an isolated house for anywhere up to several months. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Brother (Australian TV series)"
CRID is a concept from the standardization work done by the TV-Anytime forum. A CRID or a Content Reference Identifier closely matches the concept of the Uniform Resource Locator or URL, made famous by the stunning success of the World-Wide Web: ...more on Wikipedia about "Crid"
Full Service Network was a digital video trial performed by Time Warner in Orlando, Florida which launched on December 14, 1994 and lasted for 18 months. During that time, 4,000 customers had free access to the interactive digital system, which included a selection of custom services for video-on-demand, shopping, games, program guide and US Postal Service functions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Full Service Network"
ICTV is an interactive television middleware. ICTV's "HeadendWare" is a centralized platform for delivering interactive programming and services to broadband subscribers. Operating on a two-way digital network, HeadendWare enables operators to deliver powerful new services utilizing full-motion video, high-fidelity audio, graphics, and static frames. Unlike other approaches for delivering interactive services to television, HeadendWare delivers a full range of interactive multimedia capabilities to any digital set-top box. Rather than requiring local execution of applications on set-top boxes, HeadendWare delivers interactive content as standard HFC output streams by encoding video and audio generated by net-work applications into MPEG2 and digital audio such as Dolby Digital AC3 in real time. ...more on Wikipedia about "ICTV (TV)"
Interactive television describes any number of efforts to allow viewers to interact with television content as they view. It is sometimes called interactive TV, iTV, idTV or ITV (not to be confused with the British Independent Television network). ...more on Wikipedia about "Interactive television"
MHEG-5 is a standard devised for the middleware of digital teletext services in the United Kingdom. Officially ISO/ IEC 13522-5 it was evolved from the standards devised by the Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group (MHEG) and specifies the classes of multimedia objects available and their interchange. The ISO standard is now enhanced by a European standard to be published by ETSI ES 202 184, which is an MHEG-5 Broadcast Profile based on the work in the UK. ...more on Wikipedia about "MHEG-5"
Founded by Steve Perlman in 1995, WebTV Networks began life as Artemis Research. Perlman brought along co-founders Bruce Leak and Phil Goldman shortly after conceiving the basic concept. ...more on Wikipedia about "Microsoft TV"
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MPEG-2 (1994) is the designation for a group of coding standards for digital audio and video, agreed upon by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group), and published as the ISO/ IEC 13818 international standard. MPEG-2 is typically used to encode audio and video for broadcast signals, including direct broadcast satellite and Cable TV. MPEG-2, with some modifications, is also the coding format used by standard commercial DVD movies. ...more on Wikipedia about "MPEG-2"
Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) is an open middleware system standard designed by the DVB project for interactive digital television. The MHP enables the reception and execution of interactive, Java-based applications on a TV-set. Applications can be delivered over the broadcast channel, together with audio and video streams. These applications can be for example information services, games, interactive voting, e-mail, sms or shopping. For all interactive applications an additional return channel is needed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Multimedia Home Platform"
OpenTV is an interactive television company founded in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "OpenTV"
Playin' TV is a North American and European interactive television channel, owned by Visiware America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Playin' TV"
ReplayTV is a brand of digital video recorder (DVR), a term synonymous with personal video recorder (PVR). It is a consumer video device which allows users to capture television programming to internal hard disk storage for later viewing (sometimes called time shifting). ...more on Wikipedia about "ReplayTV"
The Uplate Game Show is a late night interactive television program in Australia shown on Channel 10. It is written and hosted by 2005 Big Brother contestant Simon Deering, who is more commonly known by his nickname Hotdogs. The show consists of brain teasers and puzzles solved by viewers telephoning in. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Uplate Game Show"
TiVo (pronounced, in IPA, ) is a popular brand of digital video recorder (DVR), a term synonymous with personal video recorder (PVR). It is a consumer video device which allows users to capture television programming to internal hard disk storage for later viewing (sometimes called " time shifting"). ...more on Wikipedia about "TiVo"
WapTV is an interactive TV technology platform comprising a microbrowser, a markup language, and a significant collection of associated software tools and services. Further information, training and support is available from the Sky Interactive Developers' Programme. See ** for details. ...more on Wikipedia about "WapTV"
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