"The Accedo Application Portfolio is presently the largest available collection of interactive value-added services such as games, karaoke on demand, weather, puzzles, horoscope, comics, quizzes and PlasmaArt for IPTV."

Can't say I'm much of the Karaoke type of person so definitely not that...

If the games were networked with other people, I would definitely try that.

I'd also like to a NTN-type trivia system where you compete with other users.

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Curtis
TVover.net

Curtis:

"The Accedo Application Portfolio is presently the largest available collection of interactive value-added services such as games, karaoke on demand, weather, puzzles, horoscope, comics, quizzes and PlasmaArt for IPTV."

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Realistically, the vast, vast majority of times that people turn on their TV, they don't want to play games or do PlasmaArt(tm) - they want to watch TV.

The interactive features that I would want are pretty much all PVR based:

Good search capabilities on Title/Genre etc.

Intelligent auto-recording based on viewing preferences

Pretty much all the stuff that TiVO has....

As for the other stuff...Games? Not really - I have a xbox/PS3/PC for that - and your average gamer wants to push the hardware. Quizzes? Possibly. Horoscopes...Possibly. All of these things will be niche at best.

An SMS gateway - now there's a thought!

 

Agreed. But don't forget IPTV is called to be the multimedia center in the household. Those additional services are also attractive, even in the case the operator doesn't generate direct incomings from them.

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hoopz

I'm going to have to agree with James here, but I have a Wii instead :-)

Also, trying to integrate all of these things in with the TV service leads to more headaches than it's worth. Let people get their own game systems and let the IPTV system focus on delivering TV in various forms.  

I'm interested in iTV

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