CYBERSPORT : THINK OF IT AS KEITH JACKSON.COM FOR THE COMPUTER LITERATE.Byline: Tom Hoffarth There's research out there that some 20 million homes in American have a television set in the same room as a personal computer. Half of those are computers with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . So, if one out of every 100 uses the new Enhanced TV Enhanced TV (ETV) is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web PrimeTime Football interactive Web site tonight that works in concert with the live Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. coverage on TV, the guys at Disney think they'll be on the ground floor of something kinda neat. The Enhanced TV site (http://etv.go.com/ mnf/website/index.html) is billed as neither a TV experience nor a computer experience, but something to be appreciated simultaneously. Call it a WebTV event without the WebTV system. Dexterity is a key. For example, when boring old television starts coverage of the Tennessee-Florida State game, the site will be serving several functions: A push channel will send game-related graphics and stats on a relay system from the gamesite in Tempe, Ariz., to the transmitter in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and then to the site's homebase in Seattle within seconds. It's better than pop-up video Pop-Up Video is a popular VH1 television show that "popped up" bubbles (  ) — officially called "info nuggets" — containing trivia and spry witticisms throughout music videos. . A browser will keep updating team and individual stats as the game progresses. A QB1-type game called the PrimeTime Player will run a contest to allow users to guess which player will end up with the ball on each play. Trivial? Sure. But pre-register and it's a guaranteed way to keep your head into the game. ``It's another example of pushing the envelope of television sports,'' said Kevin Mayer, the Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Company's senior vice president of strategic planning. ``Sports is a natural for programming this kind of data-rich application that has a real emotional involvement.'' Adds Jonathan Leess, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports' multimedia vice president: ``It's not really a new thing for those who already use the Internet while watching TV. We continue to see significant immediate jumps of traffic on our sites when we promote them on a TV program. This takes it a step further - synchronizing it on a production.'' The site, which Disney has built to accommodate 100,000 users, can also be accessed through ESPN's site (http://espn.go.com/), ABC's two sites (http://abcnews.com and http://abc.com) or the Bowl Championship Series Online site (http://www.abccfb.com/). |
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