Interactive Television Projects
Some interactive television projects are consumer electronics boxes which provide set-top interactivity, while other projects are supplied by the cable television companies (or multiple system operator, or MSO) as a system-wide solution. Even other, newer, approaches integrate the interactive functionality in the TV, thus negating the need for a separate box. Some examples of interactive television include:
- MSOs
- Cox Communications (US)
- Time Warner (US)
- Comcast (US)
- Cablevision (US)
- Previous MSO trials or demos
- TELE TV from Bell Atlantic, Nynex, Pac Tel, CAA (US) - no longer in operation
- Full Service Network from Time Warner (US) - no longer in operation
- GTE mainStreet (US) a former product of GTE, also provided over select Continental Cablevision and Daniels cable television systems.
- Smartbox from TV Cabo, Novabase and Microsoft (PT) - this no longer in operation, although some of the equipment is still used for the digital TV service. This was the pioneer project.
- Consumer electronics solutions
- TiVo
- ReplayTV
- UltimateTV
- Miniweb Interactive
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
- Philips Net TV
- Mirada products
- Two-Screen Solutions, or "enhanced TV" solutions
- See Enhanced TV
- Hospitality & healthcare solutions
- LodgeNet
- Miracle TV Corp.: Tru2Way and IPTV Centralized and Stand Alone solutions.
Mobile phone interaction with the STB and the TV
- ITEA WellCom Project using Bluetooth and NFC for authentication, pairing and seamless service access
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