With new technologies being introduced to the TV as each year passes by, it is no wonder that the TV remains as one of our primary means of entertainment in the living room until now. Well, DISH Networks has something new up their sleeves, offering the launch of Tetris TV. Yes, you read that right – Tetris TV, a cutting-edge interactive TV game service which allows viewers to get a spot of Tetris in during a long commercial on another channel, using but a few clicks of your television’s remote.

Tetris TV on DISH Network features two popular Tetris games: Marathon and 40-Lines. Marathon has 15 challenging levels of game play, and 40-Lines is a race to clear 40 lines in as fast a time as possible. In future releases of the Tetris TV service, subscribers will also be able to compete with other DISH Network subscribers by posting their names and scores to national leader boards managed by Oberon Media’s iTV community and service management technology, JIVE. Additionally, Oberon Media’s JIVE technology will allow for the management of Tetris tournaments in future releases. Tetris TV will take advantage of this technology by offering prizes to top players later in the year.

Something tells us that those crazy Japanese Tetris players will introduce total ownage of everyone else – ever tried playing Tetris DS with them? Also, it would be interesting to see whether new peripherals will be introduced in terms of a TV remote-cum-gaming controller if Tetris TV really takes off in a big way.

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