See a 2 minute demo video of the Formula 1 feed, as well as other examples of Interactive TV: http://www.broadbandbananas.com/vvsports.html I'm gonna need a really big HDTV with quad PIP input to display three big screens plus the navigator screen.... or figure out how to mount four big LCD panels, each fed by a separate receiver..... <holl_ands> ================================================================= Richard Hollandsworth <holl_ands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Formula One provided a multi-channel interactive feed (since 1996) via multi-lingual feeds on ASTRA: http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00235.html http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00219.html http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ftjs018.html http://www.evs.tv/Download/SuccessStories/DVB_AppliNote_1.0_Formula1.pdf The www.premiere.de website used to have some example screenshots for Interactive Formula 1, but the link no longer works. Unfortunately, it's not in HD. Maybe next season.... ============================================================= Cliff Benham wrote: Are you sure? Maybe THAT'S where they got the idea? Rod Hewitt wrote: >[SNIP] > > > >>DISH Network pioneered the interactive mosaic -- six >>mainstream TV channels integrated with interactive features >>-- during the 2004 Summer Olympics and again for the 2004 >>Presidential Elections. >> >> > >Apparently no-one at Echostar's marketing department has seen the >mosaics that have been running for many years on Astra! > >Rod > --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.