15-09-2023, 10:28 PM
(15-09-2023, 09:10 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: Interactive never really caught on and the idea of messing around with a TV and a keyboard and a dial up connection to order a pizza was never going to catch on. Very little was true interactivity either, you couldn't actually interact with what was going on on TV.
The best 'interactive' thing I remember seeing was on night one of E4 where the series Banzai launched with a fairly simple MHEG play along. Worked really well with no return path or any faffing. I thought Avago was quite good too.
I won an Open… keyboard once by having a letter published in the Sky customer magazine.
I tried ordering a couple of Domino’s pizzas using it. It was such a monumental faff, that by the time I’d made my order and entered my address and card details, I could easily have walked to the pizza shop and placed my order there in the time.
On the subject of play along interactive game shows, I remember they did the same for a series or two of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I remember trying it and getting bored after a while. I think the problem with such things is most people enjoy TV as a passive, relaxing experience. Anything beyond shouting answers at the screen seems like unnecessary admin.