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I tend to watch a lot of Science Channel, Discovery, National Geo etc.
When something odd or interesting comes on, I frequently do a quick Google and prowl around for additional stuff about whatever it is that just grabbed my curiosity.
I'm imagining a service that I could subscribe to that would
be matched with the timing of whatever is on TV and show a constantly updating page of Google search hits that go along with whatever it is that's on at the moment.
It would work like this... I would go to the site, type in the show I'm watching (or better yet, provide a connection to the cable box and let it figure it out). At that point, the searching would begin with each screen refresh showing a new search and the associated hits.
Could be fun...
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Cool! You could turn every show into "Pop-up Video" just by having your computer near your TV. |
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"He's lying!" "That's wrong!" "No way, Jose" |
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One of the cable channel pops up links for the documentaries being aired, as do most of the news channels, but of course, that's only to their own shows. |
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I'd like to see the information either inset on the TV screen, or maybe overlaid over the action. |
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Starship Troopers (movie) and many others do this. "Would you like to know more....". Interactive media like this is inevitable, and I'd say a good thing. |
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Zigness gets my [+] this time, as the mechanism proposed does seem to be a new jump forward. |
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Just to perhaps add / improve by: |
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Use the text from the closed-caption feed from the program. Extract keywords from the text, and make each one clickable. When clicking, it searches that word in Wikipedia, Google, and any other URL that you configure. |
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Umm, hello? technical support? The GoogleTracks box keeps on sending me to "Pregnancy, Baby and toddler information" and to "theinterviewwithgod.com" when I play my big brother's movies. |
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Okay, here's how I see this being
implemented. |
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TV card in PC, extracts closed
captions, feeds them to a
Firefox browser (picture in
picture) plug-in,
existing browser plug-ins
auto-search on user selected
words. The remote integrates a
wireless air-mouse - swapping
the PinP screens activates the
mouse. |
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Somewhere in the middle of all
that you could parse the text
through something that sorts the
words for statistical
significance, eliminating all the
"the"s and "and"s. Level of
rareness user settable. |
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The searches could also be
presented as links from the
relevant words, so you just have
to point and click, instead of
doing the plug-in drop down
menu mambo, and return to
your viewing. |
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Bunsen, I thought of a similar thing, and then I thought that maybe this should be pre-programmed rather than real-time. Hmmm... |
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I thought it in the best interests of the programme producers to transmit, using the closed captions as [BH] suggests, relevant links that your browser can then display. That way they ensure that you watch the content they want you to thus maximising advertisement reven...wait a minute. |
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