Interactive TV The Web and the Internet are the latest technologies to be harnessed by companies trying to develop interactive television. This paper reviews the efforts of technology companies and broadcasters to combine television and the Web in their products and activities, and how users are already using them both at home. It reviews some research on the way that TV and the PC/Internet are used at home, and suggests some way that the …
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…cash to develop. In the last years of the 1990s, the Internet, and more particularly, World Wide Web content, have emerged to offer a way of providing many i-TV services more easily and cheaply than some of the more technology heavy and commercially integrated systems. In the same way as earlier technologies were grasped upon to provide interactive television, the Web and Internet became one of the poles of attraction for system and business development.