Fast to load and very intuitive and simple to use, Nova's Weather service provides graphic weather charts for Greece covering "today" and "tomorrow", plus also offers localised forecasts for the major Greek cities.

The local city forecasts are quickly accessed by pressing OK when the application is in either "today" or "tomorrow" mode.

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Broadcast on channel 631 the traffic status report service offers viewers the latest updates from 2 high ways and major overpass/express roads in Taipei city.

The service provides traffic pictures sourced directly from websites of National Freeway bureau and Dept. of Transportation of Taipei city. Images are updated every 3 min.

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EMC's interactive news service on channel 601 provides news, weather and lottery information and leverages the resources of the popular 24hr cable news channel that forms part of their group. Once again the service has been created in OpenTV SDK by EMC's engineers and is designed to be updated every hour.

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Sky New Zealand's 'Weather Channel', was developed using 'GadgetMill', an XML based application creation environment created by local OpenTV developer Oktobor.

The service, created in partnership with local data provider MetService is one of the most comprehensive weather applications I have seen and allows Sky New Zealand's digital viewers to access up to the minute weather information including national and regional forecasts, radar and satellite maps, moon movements, tides and other marine information.

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Stream's first interactive channel completely dedicated to strictly real time financial information (Borsa ITV) has been running since '99.

It is a very complete source of information that satisfies both the first time investor as much as the most expert with a constantly up-to-date, reliable, complete and detailed set of data concerning stock market, funds, futures, share indexes, historical graphs and more.

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The iTV weather forecast channel is one of the most frequently consulted services in Stream's bouquet. The recent re-design of the whole service has added completely new features, improved the user interface and enriched all the available information adding, for example, the Real Feel Temperature, the UV factor, the sea conditions, the snow situation for skiers, pollution indexes, pollen survey and more.

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This is one of the fastest loading and most comprehensive iTV weather services we have seen.

It doesn't have such a clean design as for instance the TPS Meteo service has. However the navigation of the service is very fluid. Interestingly, unlike a number of other OpenTV platforms, Digiturk doesn't have colour keys and so the user must navigate using up,down,left,right, OK and Back keys only!

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These services follow an almost similar content and design approach as Lagardere's services in the French market. (see below) and indeed some such as Elle Cocina are virtually identical in terms of design, content and navigation.

All services are accessed via a portal on the DirecTV LA STB.

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Wednesday 17th April 2002 saw the launch of the UK Government's UK Online service over Sky Digital with its own dedicated space on the interactive menu.

Currently UK iTV agency Channelbay are responsible for the hosting of the service, Editorial is managed directly by UK online through Channelbay's "Loadingbay" product.

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This portal allows viewers to play games, purchase mobile phone ringtones, read dynamically updated news stories from one on the most popular Scandinavian newspapers VG and check out the latest weather across Scandinavia and the rest of the world.

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The Telepiu Meteo service follows the same design principles of all the main Telepiu iTV services - This is primarily due to the limited functionality that exists in Canal Plus Technologies authoring tool - Studio+.

However, the saving grace is that the application is relatively fast to launch on Telepiu's Gold Box decoders.

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Created in IDP's RegieLine tool, Cyfra+'s weather application allows viewers to consult local weather charts, plus forcasts for major towns and cities - but is enhanced further by a range of extensive satellite maps which are updated dynamically throughout the day.

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Leveraging a number of regularly updated content sources, iDaily provides Austar's subscribers with access to News, Sports, Finance and Entertainment as well as a very popular horoscopes service.

The iDaily application also crosslinks to the the iWeather application.

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It's hard to find a digital television without its own weather service (I think Showtime in the Middle East is the exception - but then its sunny every day in the Middle East!) Austar are offering a clearly designed and comprehensive service that offers maps, surf reports, world weather and 4 day forcasts and many other features. Recently launched (although not featured in this video) is the ability to receive a local forcast by inputting your postcode.

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Accessed from the Viasat portal, this application developed by Agency.com provides detailed regionalised weather information from across Scandinavia and also employs an animated satellite map.

Animated maps can been seen in other markets and liven up weather applications which can seem to be a little static and boring. The animated map is used to good effect in France on TPS's weather application.

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The interactive application Aeropuertos available on Vía Digital makes it possible to consult arrivals and departures at Spanish airports.

Content is supplied by AENA (the national air traffic administration of Spain) and is updated every 15 minutes.

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One of a range of "virtual magazines" produced by French publisher Lagardere , Elle Cuisine provides an example of the commercial opportunity in repurposing content from printed press or online services onto digital television.

Other services include advice for Parents and Car Reviews in Auto Moto.

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