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Interactive on ntl

  • 22-08-2005 8:27am
    #1
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭


    Is there any plans by ntl to introduce interactive services?


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  • #2
    Round Cable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭Round Cable


    There were in 2003, but now that ntl is gone this new European crowd might when they take over fully.


  • #3
    Rosser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Rosser


    yeah I read in Silconerepublic.com that they'll roll it out with their answer to Sky+ at the end of 2005


  • #4
    thund3rbird_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭thund3rbird_


    snaps wrote:
    Is there any plans by ntl to introduce interactive services?

    is it not already interactive?

    what about the "unplugging / remove-insert card / fix scart / shout abuse at box" interactivity that's been there from the start ;) ?


    seriously tho
    proper* interactivity requires a return route back to ntl
    afaik the older boxes had built in cable modems, some of the silver ones had an rj11 phone socket but the new boxes don't have either

    assuming that the return would be on the cable then the only areas this would work is anywhere you can get ntl broadband which would rule out a good section of customers


    *sky sat dishes only receive - not send
    sky 'interactive' such as selecting one of a number of games / news reports is not true interactive as all the games/reports are received by the box, all you are doing is selecting which stream to watch which is effectively just changing a channel
    where they do have proper interactivity is the likes of the voting on sky news where the box "dials" your vote back to sky


  • #5
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    thund3rbird_ wrote:
    assuming that the return would be on the cable then the only areas this would work is anywhere you can get ntl broadband which would rule out a good section of customers

    They would cover about 1/3 of Dublin. All of Galway and all of Waterford. The Dublin number will increase. I would imagine they will do it like sky/sky plus and make it an additional service.


  • #6
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    thund3rbird_ wrote:
    *sky sat dishes only receive - not send
    sky 'interactive' such as selecting one of a number of games / news reports is not true interactive as all the games/reports are received by the box, all you are doing is selecting which stream to watch which is effectively just changing a channel
    where they do have proper interactivity is the likes of the voting on sky news where the box "dials" your vote back to sky


    Thats the bit id be after, so i can flick between the matches on champions league nights.


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