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TV
Crossover Links - (Interactive
TV
Links, Triggers,
Hot Spots) - Many
consider this to be an antiquated term - A type of interactive TV
enhancement
that lets users know that there's additional enhanced
information or web content associated with that TV program or
advertisement. A TV
Crossover Link
often appears as a small icon in the corner of the TV screen at a point
in
time
determined by the show's producers. Clicking on the link makes a
virtual panel
appear, giving the viewer an option to go to whatever the enhancement
is.
Of course they can just click
off the TV Crossover Link
and just
continue
watching normal TV. If the viewer chooses to go to the offered web
site,
electronic storefront, or other interactive feature provided
in the virtual panel, (thus temporarily
leaving
the TV program or advertisement they were watching,) afterwards they
can press the
"view" or another specified
button on the remote control or keyboard, and return to the program or
advertisement
they were originally watching. The term "TV Crossover Links" is a
trademark
of the Microsoft Corporation. Also see its definition at http://etvcookbook.org/glossary.
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