Will the technology ever exist

[jimmyjam]

I would love to be able to watch a TV show or movie and have a little cursor that I can move to some actor on TV and have their IMDB pop up so I don't have to spend the rest of the show trying to figure out who it is. Will that ever be a reality? I'd pay extra for that.

 

[Riceninja]

since youre willing to pay extra, hook up a HTPC with internet connection.

 

[jimmyjam]

Originally posted by: Riceninja
since youre willing to pay extra, hook up a HTPC with internet connection.

I'd still have to figure out what show I'm watching, IMDB the show, then figure out the character's name, and then go to the actors page. I want to just have a cursor to put on the person on whatever show or commercial is on, click it, and have a little box show up with their IMDB info. Am I asking too much?

 

[Phoenix86]

U-Verse is capable of that now, they'd just have to program an app.

 

[olds]

Topic Title: Will the technology ever exist
Topic Summary: to have IMDB on my TV?
Yes. It already exists.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Topic Title: Will the technology ever exist
Topic Summary: to have IMDB on my TV?
Yes. It already exists.

Whew.

Sure glad this conundrum was solved so efficiently.

:beer:

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Topic Title: Will the technology ever exist
Topic Summary: to have IMDB on my TV?
Yes. It already exists.

Whew.

Sure glad this conundrum was solved so efficiently.

:beer:

Glad to help. :beer:

 

[SlitheryDee]

It seems perfectly possible to design a program that could look up the cast of whatever show you're watching and display a list of actor's names and corresponding portraits/profile info from IMDB at the touch of a button.

The whole clicking on the actual actor onscreen thing seems possible also, but more complicated. The media would either have to be prepared so that the space each actor/relevant clickable object occupies onscreen for the entire movie or show is somehow cued to provide information, OR highly accurate and not very resource intensive (this seems unlikely) realtime facial/object recognition software would need to be employed. One sounds like too much extra work and the other sounds like it would need too much processing power.