Siemens COSE service to enable interactive TV

by Marc Perton, posted Feb 6th 2006 at 12:07PM

Siemens is set to roll out a new system that the company says will enable instant messaging and voice chat via television. The service, known as COSE (apparently an acronym for "Communication Services on TV" in German), will allow developers to build IP communication technology into set-top boxes, facilitating a range of interactive television functions, from viewer-participation game shows to chat rooms related to specific programs. Of course, given the wild success of previous interactive TV efforts, we're not exactly holding our breath for this one, but we'll reserve judgement until the company actually breaks out a demo, which it will apparently do at CeBIT next month.

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kxs @ Feb 6th 2006 12:28PM

Ohh interactive TV, how many years have they tried to this anyway?

Here's something else that should make every cable-tv exec crap in their pants:

http://www.tvkoo.com/update/viviplay.exe

Peer-to-peer cable tv! I don't know what this company's biz model is since I don't read Chinese, but heck, if someone releases a wild version of this software, and a bunch of people decide to share live channels from their homes it will be soo cool. Imagine, every channel around the world on the internet in a p2p player like this one. Only takes one person with fast internet to share a channel.

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