From Tracy Swedlow's ITV newsletter:
C O N T E N T
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>Review: ACTV's Synchronized HyperTV Programming TBS "CyberBond"
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>TBS Superstation in partnership with ACTV kicked off November
>27th with the 15 movie marathon on that cable channel featuring
>ACTV's HyperTV Web broadcaster. To participate in this
>synchronized application over the Web with the movie, you had to
>download the HyperTV plug-in from the ACTV site, register, and
>launch the app. Once you registered all sorts of marketing
>information and picked up your password from your email, you
>logged in, chose a room (e.g. Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Paris, etc.)
>and joined in a chat with other viewers. The supposition is that you
>had a TV in the same room or were watching via a TV tuner card
>on your PC. Four frames on the screen included a chat window
>(top right), the image of the movie in (upper left corner), an
>advertisement (lower left), and a Flash Factoid in the bottom half.
>The experiment proved quite buggy as the chat session often stalled
>and factoid rotation sometimes stopped all together. For example,
>during a scene when Bond is underwater, a Factoid said: "If the
>oceans were divided up among all the people of the Earth, every single
>man, woman and child would get the equivalent of 110 billion gallons."
> Interesting, but unrelated to Bond trivia. Keep working on the code
>guys and the format. On the other hand, the producers did put
>"HyperTV Presents - The Test" in the <title> tag.
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