Originally Posted by Chris Howell

Urm, ITV and Five are (but then its all games, X-Factor info and other crap designed to make them ££Ã ¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚£).

The Beeb HAVE to provide interactive to the best of their ability because they have an obligation to provide their services to as many people as possible, regardless of what platform people are using to watch digital TV (Sky, Cable, Freeview etc). AFAIK, its not impossible to do News 24 Multiscreens on the current software - Telewest users have enjoyed News 24 Multiscreens for eons now - not sure what's holding up NTL on this.

IMO, Interactive applications are far more reliable on the TV Drives/V+ boxes, which have extra processing power and more memory to cope with such applications, without crashing the box or requiring constant reboots.

Having said that, the BBC Multiscreens apps on my old PACE box worked OK for big events like the World Cup, I probably had to reset the box 2 or 3 times a week back then, they just don't have enough memory to cope.