INTERACTIVE TV TRIES AGAIN

摘要

Enter the words "interactive TV" into the Telephony search engine and you are as likely to find a story from 1999 or 2003 as one from 2008. The idea of making television more than a lean-back experience has been around for some time, but interactive applications have yet to take hold. WebTV, the technology Microsoft acquired and renamed MSN TV, actually still exists as a product, but its thin-client, keyboard and service approach never really caught on.