Product Description

This ground-breaking system turns watching television into an active learning experience by letting your children interact with characters from their favorite TV shows. The system includes a child-friendly InteracTV wireless controller, a DVD, three activity cards featuring footage and gameplay from Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street and SpongeBob SquarePants, and a case to store the DVD and cartridges. To play, kids simply place the InteracTV DVD into your family's DVD player and the cartridge into the InteracTV controller. Characters like Dora and Elmo will invite your children to answer questions using the controller. Requires a DVD player and 3 "AA" batteries (not included). Additional activity cards sold separately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65917 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fisher-Price
• Model: B9376
• Number of items: 1

Features

• The Fisher-Price InteracTV Learning System transforms TV into an active experience
• With the InteracTV system, kids can interact with their favorite shows and characters
• Plus play learning games and activities, with specially designed DVDs
• Place the InteracTV DVD into a DVD player, insert an activity card into the InteracTV controller and footage from the featured episode begins
• Children can interact with the show and answer questions by using the wireless controller
• Age range 3 to 12 years
• And a bonus DVD featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer
• Includes a wireless InteracTV controller, 3 activity cards, a storage case

Editorial Review
Made by Fisher-Price, this electronic learning system is comprised of an InteracTV DVD, which you insert into your home DVD player; a controller; and activity cards based on popular children's television shows. Plug an activity card into the controller, and games and activities featuring that show will appear on the TV screen. Nine touch points let kids interact with the characters, in lessons covering numbers, colors, animals, and more. Cards contain more than 100 learning questions and activities, posed randomly. This model comes with three activity cards--SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, and Elmo's World--as well as a storage case to hold the cards and the DVD. A switch on the controller enables you to use the system on up to three different DVD players--say, in multiple rooms, or at relatives' houses. --Andy Boynton

From the Manufacturer
InteracTV is a groundbreaking system that enhances the learning experience of kids? favorite programs by enabling them to interact with their favorite television shows and characters. The hardware for InteracTV includes a child-friendly remote, a bonus DV

Customer Reviews

Great product for the money!
I just got this as a Christmas gift for my little boy. When I looked at the product in the store I was amazed that for under $35 it came with over 100 interactive questions and included 3 different shows and cards of Spongebob, Dora and Elmo to start out with. My husband and I did a test run with it to see what we thought of it before I made a decision to buy any extra dvd's to go along with it for Christmas.
The setup took about 15 mins. we had several different codes to try out with our dvd player, but once we got the right code it was simple from there. We tried out the 3 different cards that came with the Interact Tv.
The first card we tried was the Elmos World and it starts out just as if you were watching Sesame Street and then you get a chance to answer questions on the cards- its simple to use! Its a fun interactive way to teach your children. The controller was far off from our dvd player and it worked fine. I did'nt even have it pointed directly at the dvd player and each time I pushed a button on the interact tv controller it worked.
My husband did'nt like the interact tv as much as I did. He likes the Vsmile much better- as do I, but the Interact Tv is a little cheaper and would be great to take to Grandmas house since it has 3 different codes you can store in the interact tv controller for 3 different tvs- smart idea for Fisher Price! The controller is simple to use, just touch the cards on the controller. The questions is simple for children 3 and up.
All in all for $35 I think its worth every penny. A surprise to me when I opened up the package to try it out, I found a nice hard plastic case to hold the dvd and the cards that came with the system. That was a nice extra that came with this product. Its a great way to let your child sit and watch tv without them just sitting there, they actually get to answer questions and learn at the same time. A great product for winter time during snow days or days to Grandmas house.

I'd pay double!
My almost 3 year old wants so much to play video games with her big brothers but is too little to really manipulate the controllers and buttons to play those games. I saw this system and the Vsmiles system at the store and got this, as it seemed to be more age appropriate. It was worth every penny and knowing how much it's used, I'd seriously pay twice as much if I had to buy it again!

Big highlights-
Familiar characters and shows.
Short game time, many questions but interspersed with snippets of shoes and songs.
Kid friendly controller-big buttons, big handles, sits comfortably in kids lap and stays pointing at the dvd player!
Kid friendly 'pages'- the removable game 'sheets' are durable plastic AND, when removed and replaced with another it does NOT hang the game, the game simply waits for a new sheet and then starts the game that goes with that sheet!
Age appropriate questions and interface- the questions are simple enough for a 2 year old and the control unit matches the screen when it's game time so it's easy for them to decide what bottun to push.
No "enter" keys needed- some kids games require an enter key or some sort of "ok' button be pressed which isn't always obviously to the younger set.
Positive reinforcement- A wrong answer gets the question repeated, or a hint to the right one. No buzzers or other negative feedback. A right answer gets a happy sound and praise.

My daughter will play this game for an hour or more at a time! While a video will keep her busy for 30 minutes or so, it couch potato time, when she's playing this I know she's being challenged and learning and she's talking back and shouting out the answers and not just vegging out!!

We Love This Toy
This is really cool. It seems Fisher-Price thoroughly researched the ergonomics with preschoolers and designed a great product. The controller has handles on both sides and is well balanced, so when my daughter is answering a question she can always keep one hand on a handle. I don't think she's ever dropped it. We have a few regular DVDs that have games on them, but my nearly-4-yr-old can't play them by herself because my DVD remotes are too complicated. This is the answer I've been looking for.

The games are embedded within an episode of a cartoon, and each disc has 3 episodes. You can't change the outcome of the episode, but there are places along the way where you have to answer a question in order to proceed. Or you can stop and play a game when you get to it. Sometimes my dtr. skips the games - it's her choice. She loves the Sponge Bob episode the best. She's already learned how to repeat a sequence of 3 items by playing the "sting orchestra" game. She likes the Dora episode, too. The Elmo one is ta bit too babyish for her and would be good for a young 3-yr-old.

There are some things to be aware of. The activity pad is a remote that must be "seen" by the DVD player, so your child needs to be pretty much directly in front of the TV/DVD in order for it to work. Sometimes changing games is a bit tricky - the DVD player has to "see" you remove one card and insert the new one. Insert the card in rapidly or it can mistake it for another. Programming the pad is just like programming any universal remote, but there's some trial and error until you find the code that works for your DVD player. I have 2 players. One works perfectly, but the other has some bugs. I tried all codes for my Samsung DVD/VCR combo, but the arrow keys still don't respond properly. Fisher-Price said I could return the unit, but there's no fix for this problem. Of course, I don't intend on parting with the toy. My dtr. can still play the games on it, but sometimes I have to help her move forward when the arrow key is being quirky.

If you've always wished your kids could play the games on DVDs independently, then this toy is for you. Don't expect it to feel like a video game, because there is a delay between the child's response and the program's reaction as the DVD player calls up the right track. There are so many skills that my preschooler can practice via this system. I can't wait to get her the additional Sponge Bob, Dora, and Blue's Clues DVDs. As much as she loves the one Sponge Bob episode that comes with the activity pad, I'm sure that those 3 additional discs would keep her entertained (and learning) every day for many months to come.