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Interactive TV

Mandoforms and Interactive TV

The UK government has decided to completely replace analogue television with digital television by the year 2010. These digital TVs have interactive capabilities suitable for data capture using electronic forms. As such interactive TV may become a major route for capturing information in the future.

Currently, there are a large number of differing digital television systems available, each with it's own unique capabilities. Hence providing specific support for the data capturing facilities on each platform would be a huge undertaking.

At Mandoforms, we provide tools for building forms using a consistent user-friendly interface. Currently, these forms can be delivered to Java capable browsers, and HTML Forms capable browsers. As such Mandoforms can already work with the many systems that already provide suitable browsers. For example the Bush Web TV system, and freeview system (formerly ITV Digital and On Digital) both provide compatible browsers today.

However, if you have a specific TV system you wish to target, we would be happy to work with you to confirm that Mandoforms works with this system. In addition, the new Mandoforms architecture, introduced in V3, allows us to easily add support for specific delivery channels. So, if your preferred interactive TV system would benefit from specific support within Mandoforms we would be happy to work with you to investigate adding this.