A service that allows a TV remote control to access up-to-the-minute information, get program details, shop, etc., while watching TV.
Enables viewers to interact with the television set in ways other than simply controlling the channel and the volume and handling videotapes. Typical interactive TV uses are selecting a video film to view from a central bank of films, playing games, voting or providing other immediate feedback through the television connection, banking from home, and shopping from home.
any television programming that stimulates an immediate response in the form of a telephone call or pushing a button on an interactive controller. The latter will be commonplace by the mid-twenty-first century. Interactive TV will combine a household's phone, fax, computer, stereo and security systems and television into one electronic communications center or "telecomp."
A TV broadcast that allows a user to do something other than watch the program, from getting more information, submitting an email, or making a purchase.
Differently from existing TV that able to only watch, two-way communications between the TV viewer and service providers.
Most satellite TV receivers are now outfitted with a telephone jack that plugs into your existing phone line. This connection allows you limited access to the Internet; this is interactive TV. With interactive TV you can shop online, access your banking information and send and receive emails. While this technology is still in its infancy, it looks to the future of an integrated entertainment system featuring satellite, movies and Internet capabilities in every system.
Interactive TV lets you use the enclosed remote control to access up-to-the-minute news, sports, financial information, weather, get program trivia, respond to free offers and shop, all while you watch TV.
A technology that allows viewers to respond to choices on the TV set. Computer manufacturers and cable firms, especially, have regaled Americans with the promise of hundreds of pay-per-view movies that can be viewed on demand, shopping, paying bills, and the like.
Interactive television service that allows you to get trivia, current weather, respond to offers and more with your remote control.
Two-way communications between the TV viewer and service providers. Although various experiments have taken place throughout the 1980s, interactive TV has yet to take off. The closest thing to it on a widescale basis is pay TV, which dedicates an entire channel to the same movie so that the viewer can begin to watch it with reasonably short notice.
Two-way communications technology in which users interact with television programming. 6.12
Broadcast television combined with interactive enhancements and extensions, allowing viewers to control content and interact with the broadcaster
