(March, 2006) - "After six years of interactive advertising in Britain, red button response rates remained well above response rates to traditional direct-response TV ads that asked the viewer to dial a phone number, according to Robert Leach, head of interactive services at British pay TV operator BSkyB's Sky Media arm."  www.theaustralian.news.com.au


Red-button Interactive TV Services – (May be known as Press Red):
(1)
The remote control (interactive keypad) the viewer uses has a red button to press for Interactive TV related activity. http://informitv.com/glossary/redbutton

DEMO:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/tv/tv_interactive.shtml

(2) On the screen of certain Interactive TV broadcasts there may appear a red electronic button(s). Folks can click on these via their remote control/keypad, to activate various Interactive TV services. This term has also been used in relation to Teletext.

(3) Viewers might also “press red” to send a TV clip to someone's phone-enabled mobile phone. See Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS).  Digisoft is a company that can enable this {DigiMMS}  www.digisoft.tv/products/digi/digimms.html.

(4) UK Interactive TV business that offers Interactive TV authoring and Interactive TV authoring tools.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Button_%28Digital_Television%29www.pressred.tv

Red Button on the Screen - When users press (touch) the Red Button located in the TV picture instead of a keypad (remote). This more often occurs in a public area such as bars. See Kiosks.

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