Interactive TV

Reuters provides an interactive, full-screen news video experience for Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition users. The Reuters interactive TV news channel provides continuously updated footage with easy-to-use DVD-style interaction.

As a free-of-charge service, users can browse and watch 1-5 minute long, fully produced Reuters reports and raw video segments on their TV at their convenience. News stories are updated dynamically and are available as they break.

What is the Reuters interactive TV news channel for Media Center?

The Reuters news channel for Windows XP Media Center Edition delivers an interactive, full screen video news experience over the Internet to a home TV. It has been designed to have a similar user interface and navigation to Media Center, with remote control navigation that accesses DVD-like menus by using only the arrow keys and the select button. No keyboard, mouse input, or specialized controls are required making it well-suited for TV interaction.

Accessible through the Online Spotlight of Media Center, the Reuters news channel displays the first viewable frame of each video by thumbnail to make browsing easy. Videos are organized by channels - Top News, Business, World, Entertainment, Life! and Oddly Enough. Scrolling over the thumbnail reveals its title and brief description of the video and its time span. A video can be viewed full screen or as an inset to browse other stories. A broadband Internet connection is required.

How do I use the Reuters interactive TV news channel?

You will need the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 operating system or higher.

If you already have a PC with Media Center Edition installed, you will be able to upgrade to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 via Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

If you are already running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 or 2005, you will find the Reuters interactive TV news channel under Online Spotlight.

For assistance or feedback on the Reuters interactive TV news channel, please email itv@reuters.com

If you don't have a Media Center PC, you can watch the latest breaking news videos on Reuters Video.