This has been a weird dream of mine for a long time, at least in a way.netflix is already doing that. if you haven't tried one of their interactive movies try it out. you'll quickly realize that it sucks dog and tv is much better when you're being told a carefully crafted story instead of pausing the show every few minutes to ask the viewer what they'd like to see.
I've always thought it'd be cool if television could be dynamic, by letting viewers make individual choices. Swapping out actors, languages, entire story lines eventually.
Games felt like a better avenue for what I wanted, but it already seems like it's in the cards for TV/movies. Way sooner than I could have imagined.
But, as the thread premise mentions it seems more likely that it won't be used that way, especially in the shorter term.
i feel like for it to work the choices should only come once every 30 minutes at the episode breaks for major decisions to episodic cliff hangers. ...or just go play until dawn. the once every 2 minute choice timeframe is too infrequent to feel like i'm in control and too frequent to not feel like i'm being pestered by the show. i'd liken it to my hatred for quick time events.
