Advanced method and system for interactive television

摘要

A receiver (10), particularly a set top box, is provided with a tuner (11) for receiving a television signal (80) which comprises Teletext data (52); a device (17) for exchanging information over a data communications network (81), and a processing unit (14) capable of processing the received Teletext data in order to identify the television channel to which the receiver is currently tuned and to generate or retrieve remotely information (86) related to the program being broadcasted. This information (86) can be combined with the television signal and displayed on the screen (20) and/or reproduced simultaneously or alternately to the signal.