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The following
is a list terms commonly used in the interactiveTV industry. If you
find any incorrect information to be incorrect or outdated, please email
us to correct.
**Note:
There are many different kinds of interactive TV technologies and services.
The definitions below will clarify and help you differentiate between
such things as "enhanced TV", "individualized TV", "hypervideo", "NetTV",
"personal TV", and may other terms.
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REMOTE
CONTROL
Remote controls today serve as the front-end warrior in the evolution
of the TV. Today, they enable the viewer real ease-of-use and simplicity
of control. Because of that and the wide adoption by the television
industry, the addition of many more channels over cable and satellite,
and the introduction of the universal remote, viewers can "channel
surf" or become "couch potatoes" or when on the Internet users are
"Web surfing" and are "mouse potatoes". Will eTV explorers go "Web
channeling" and become "couch mouses"? The first remotes were invented,
in fact, by the German navy to help ram enemy ships in World War
I. Later, in World War II, everybody used remotes to set off all
kinds of bombs. In the 1940's, the garage door opener remote was
invented. In 1952, the first TV remote appeared and it was called,
aptly, the "Lazy Bone". Manufactured by a company called Venus (Note:
Microsoft's new set-top box project in China is called "Venus"),
the Lazy Bone control came with a 10-foot or 100 foot cable. When
clicked, a command would rotate the tuner inside the TV set and
change the channel. Throughout the years other remote systems explored
different technologies, but always seemed to encounter some problem.
For example, light sensitive cells on the TV set were sensitive
to sunlight, which would turn up the volume at random. Later, ultrasonics
built into remote controls would cause dogs to bark when they came
into the room. Eventually infrared (individual digital codes of
light pulses) would become the standard today; however, they still
don't work when pointed at objects in between it and the TV set.
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