Interactive television system and method

A system for simulating participation in a line for obtaining an item such as an autograph of a celebrity comprising:

• a plurality of cameras, each camera providing a video stream of a line;
• and,
• an interface system for broadcasting each video stream to a remote user device and switching among each video stream to simulate movement in the line on the remote user device.

An interactive system for allowing a user to remotely participate in a live event comprising:

• a broadcast system configured to generate a plurality of discrete video channels, each channel corresponding to a signal from a respective video camera viewing a live event;
• an interface system configured to receive the plurality of video channels and transmit the plurality of video channels to a remote user device, the interface system further configured to receive a signal from the user device.

An interactive system for providing video content simulating a user's participation at an event comprising:

• a plurality of discrete video channels, each channel corresponding to a signal from a respective video camera;
• an interface system configured to receive the plurality of video channels and broadcast the plurality of video channels to a remote user device, the interface further configured to selectively enable the display of the video channels on the remote user device to simulate a user's participation at an event in response to receiving a signal from the remote user device.