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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Fredericks who wrote (8050)	11/28/1999 6:34:00 AM
From: mike.com	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

From Tracy Swedlow's ITV newsletter: C O N T E N T > >Review: ACTV's Synchronized HyperTV Programming TBS "CyberBond" > >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. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=itvt@itvt.com=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >

To: Mike Fredericks who wrote (8050)	11/28/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Craig Jacobs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

Mike, We all were frustrated, however I am confident that this was a "Test" and that this will smooth out very quickly. with regard to your complaints about being asked "demographic" information to receive your plug in... <<Unreal. I'm a shareholder so I gave them the info (the company already has all my info since I'm a shareholder) but if I'd run into questions like that for a normal plug-in I wouldn't have downloaded. Thank goodness they didn't ask for a phone number or else I wouldn't have signed up - I hate telemarketers with a passion.). >>> You are missing the entire point !!!! ACTV's advertisers want to know who you are? This is specifically geared towards individualized advertising , don't you see that?