05 February 2012

The real dawning of the IPTV and interactive TV age

Speculation about IPTV, interactive TV and additional uses for the set-top-box seems to have been ongoing for a while now. I remember sitting through a presentation 8 years ago called “Put Card in Telly” outlining how payments through your set top box could be THE thing in 2001. Aside from the technology, infrastructure and security issues (is it “safe” to enter your PIN into the insecure remote control?) there was a lot of scepticism about what we will and won’t do with TVs – the lean-back, lean-forward debate.

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0 Comments. Posted by Victoria 31 March 2009