Interactive dvd applications

摘要

Apparatus for playing an interactive application using a DVD player ( 24 ) that generates images on a TV ( 22 ) responsive to addressed image data on a DVD ( 50 ), the apparatus comprising: a DVD ( 50 ) having application images encoded at addressed locations on the DVD; an interface unit ( 26 ) comprising an IR transmitter ( 34 ), at least one user input device and a processor; a readable memory device (RMD) ( 52 ), separate from the DVD ( 50 ), encoded with at least one algorithm for determining a DVD image address responsive to activation of the at least one input device by a user; wherein the processor determines an image address responsive to the at least one algorithm and activation of the at least one input device and controls the IR transmitter ( 34 ) to transmit an IR signal encoding the address to the DVD player.