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| 31 OCT 2002 at 2:58am |
mszvPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Hi David (and everyone),
I'm interested in seeing how this turns out. I'm visiting family members over New Years (in the US) and I'm not sure if their cable channels will cover it. Do you have a link you could post where we can keep up with what's going on?
On interactive TV - I don't have an opinion, except for wanting to see how it all works out. I think I might like it more if I was one of the people on the interaction part. If I can vote on the internet that would be interesting (wait, my relatives don't have broadband, only one phone line, I guess that's out).
Part of what makes an interactive game so good is that you don't have to go by the will of the majority, whatever you decide is how the game goes. On interactive TV, where the "majority rules", wouldn't that be frustrating if you weren't in the majority? I'm just wondering. I am interested in seeing how it turns out.
Similar to "Point of View", I would like to play an interactive DVD on my TV, I think that would be interesting.
Regards, mszv
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| 31 OCT 2002 at 3:49am |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | holy cow !
very cool indeed
...and i am a great fan of POV...
my only concern is how and if my intense feeling of being a sole voyeur secretly watching, immersed in their world, will carry over to TV medium...
very edgy... i loved it
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| 31 OCT 2002 at 4:15am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Yeah, what sennebec said. Exactly.
.gita, wondering if we were separated at birth or something
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| 1 NOV 2002 at 12:53am |
DavidIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | sennebec (and twin gita) have alluded to the potential loss of that "intense feeling of being a sole voyeur secretly watching, immersed in their world" when an interactive program like POV migrates its way from solo viewings to a mass television audience.
I would guess that it will be a different experience but not necessarily a lesser one. The idea for the Point Of View interactive television show arose from an experimental screening of POV before a mass audience (about 200 people) in a movie theatre in Vancouver this summer.
It was an absolute blast!
Yes, the intimacy of being one on one with the monitor screen was gone, but I've never had so much fun with any interactive product as I did that evening. 200 voices shouting out their responses to every decision, a very funny host judging which response was the loudest, the DVD image projected on a big screen and (not least important) the open bar, made for 4 hours of pure entertainment and an event the likes of which had never been experienced before. It was so much fun, I'm thinking of taking the show on the road - seriously.
If one's choices were thwarted, one simply yelled louder the next time. I'd read reviews describing people playing POV and TLC as a party game with a few guests and really enjoying it. This was like the ultimate party (of the interactive variety, at least).
We're hoping to recreate that atmosphere in the telecast on New Year's Day, though I'm sure the experience will be different.
David
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| 1 NOV 2002 at 3:56am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | i trust you implicitly, david....
let's give it a go
keep us posted...
maybe the gita-girl and i should play this one together
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| 1 NOV 2002 at 4:46am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Woah, woah, WOAH. Nobody said anything about an open bar. Of *course* it was a blast, hello?
Take it on the road! I'm *so* there!
.gita
p.s. There's a thread on the web-based demo in the Off-topic forum to which only sennebec has thus far responded (thanks, sennebec!)
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| 1 NOV 2002 at 5:34pm |
| Deleted User | Take a look at the new material that is in the Schedule of Releases when it is posted today and read about The Evolvers by a company called Ultraprime. The game is a MMOG which will interact with a TV series. This is a very exciting concept.
Harriet@JA
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| 2 NOV 2002 at 12:45am |
DavidIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | The Evolvers sounds interesting. Right now it seems to be more in the concept stage than actual production. I'd like to know more about "how" it's designed to work but I couldn't glean too much along those lines from their site. It's exciting to see other people thinking about interactive tv beyond The Shopping Channel.
David
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| 2 NOV 2002 at 6:36pm |
| Deleted User | Hello David, I agree that the Evolvers games is in it's very early stages at this time but it is clearly something to watch. Can you imagine what will happen if it is successful We might have multiple TV shows/games that we can play and manipulate.
I will see what more I can find out from my contact who represents The Ultraprime Network. Maybe I can secure enough information to turn it into an early interview.
Harriet@JA
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| 5 NOV 2002 at 6:44am |
DavidIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Harriet, that would be great to find out more information. As I said, I appreciate anyone trying to climb the mountain.
I can't begin to tell you the frustration I've experienced trying to get through to TV bureaucrats who claim to support interactive television but who are only paying lip service to something which sounds cool but about which they are clueless.
I heard from Matt Costello (writer of 7th Guest and 11th Hour) that the BBC has been looking at TLC as "a way forward" to interactive TV - and I wonder why they aren't calling me.
The single TV type person who is an actual visionary in my experience is Moses Znaimer who created CityTV in Toronto and who now has some 25 TV stations and digital channels under his wing. He took one look at POV and got in touch with me and said "I want to put this on television.".
David
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