He thought interactive TV was the key, joining QVC and later acquiring Home Shopping Network.
The interactive TV dream has been just around the corner for almost two decades.
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Another key component that Microsoft is working on is the idea of truly interactive TV.
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With all this talk of interactive TV from the likes of Sony, Yahoo!
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Narayan, an electrical engineer, became interested in interactive TV while working at Cirrus Logic in 1995.
's publications and the company's ill-fated effort to offer interactive TV in Orlando, Fla.
The software giant thought it could get an early jump on interactive TV with its WebTV service.
Rovi ( ROVI), which makes interactive TV programming guides, cleared a price consolidation in heavy volume this week.
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Interactive TV assumed that two-way broadband pipes were a prerequisite, which makes it a much more expensive proposition.
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You could say we should have waited three years to do interactive TV.
And they seemed a bit pointless - after all, who needs an interactive TV to play along with Mastermind?
With interactive TV, consumers were going to get video-on-demand, where movies were delivered through fast networks to their TV sets.
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In the coming months, the company will expand beyond the Web to other platforms, including the iPad, iPhone and interactive TV.
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Narayan got a vote of confidence from Gemstar-TV Guide, the leader in interactive TV guides, which tried to buy the company in 1998.
Nintendo made a last-minute announcement that the Wii U's on-demand and interactive TV and movie facilities would not be ready for its US launch.
Intent on being Japan's top broadband operator (high-speed web, telephony and interactive TV), Softbank's BBTechnologies has already laid pipe for 85% of the population.
Because it was born to play games, has the hands-free Kinect controller and sports a hefty hard drive, the Xbox is the strongest player in interactive TV.
It was a brief example of 'here's an early example of interactive TV' before he went on to a bigger presentation of Microsoft's TV efforts.
To make matters worse for Wink, the interactive TV industry has been moving toward an open standard that will make Wink's software easier to copy.
Bob Liodice, who heads the ANA, says it is putting Canoe together with a few ANA member companies to test the interactive TV and video-on-demand space.
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And just as Wink is beginning to hit its stride, those same companies Wilderotter worked so hard to sell on interactive TV are quietly scheming against her.
"Today, consumers are engaging in interactive TV program experiences more and more, " said Eric Anderson, vice president of content and product solutions at Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
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Customers will use the platform to receive regular TV programs as well as advanced television services including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, digital video recording and video on demand.
The promotion will be brought to life at retail with in-store POS, social media integration, grass roots activation, radio, and interactive TV on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Finally, we can't pass up the opportunity to thank iTV for setting the vision that has guided us all to the interactive TV wonder we know as Ben-o-Vision.
The U.S. market may one day open up for Narayan if the cable industry settles on a standard for interactive TV, which regulators have said must happen by 2005.
As digital cable and interactive TV become more prevalent, they are requiring cable companies to develop more advanced technology, and Gates and company are competing mightily for that business.
The new company will include News Corp's Asian star TV company, its 37.5% stake in Britain's BSkyB, its south American assets and its stake in US interactive TV company GemStar.
There are plenty of legitimate debates to be had around tablet magazines: Do readers want a faithful magazine experience, or do they want something more like an interactive TV show?
Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton, TiVo's co-founders, were part of the first wave of interactive TV when they worked on a Silicon Graphics -Time Warner trial installation in the early '90s.
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