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- TV, when you want it (2-18-99) (CNET)
Special CNET series of reports on the new TV developments.... - TV Guardian box filters out bad language from TV shows & movies (2-18-99) (MSNBC)
- MSU announces enhancements to Slipstream set-top box and reduces volume cost to $140-$150 per unit range (2-18-99) (Business Wire)
- GTE announces Intrigue system for set-tops and computers (2-18-99) (Business Wire)
- "Couch Potatoes" turning into "Mouse Potatoes" (2-17-99) (NY Times)
- Alcatel announces open-standard "HomeTop" for set-tops, screenphones, & GSM devices (2-17-99) (Business Wire)
- Prasara & Diversinet to provide secure interactive TV transactions (2-17-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link) (another link)
- SMART CARDS: CNBC interview of SCM Microsystems CEO Steve Humphreys (2-17-99) (CNBC/AP)
Comment: U.S. consumers may be slower to adopt Smart Cards compared to European consumer acceptance of Smart Cards. A recent Time Digital article found that New Yorkers were skeptical about using Smart Cards for spontaneous purchases around town. It may take a while to change American payment behavior.... But when Americans learn more about buying products via the Internet with Smart Cards, they may more readily accept using Smart Cards for their electronic purchases. - General Instrument to provide digital systems &smp; set-tops to Helicon Cable Communications (2-17-99) (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Satellite TV & the Internet: More TV or Faster Access? (2-16-99) (Forbes)
- Telewest & Flextech service to launch tests of WebTV (2-16-99) (Daily Telegraph London)
- BSkyB abandons "walled garden" of websites; TV web viewing banished?? (2-16-99) (Birmingham Post)
- NTL launches Internet TV in Edinburgh (2-16-99) (The Scotsman) (another link)
- Helicon Cable to install General Instrument set-top boxes for subscribers (2-16-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
- Cablesoft & OrderTrust to enable shopping via cable TV (2-16-99) (Business Wire)
- MRG report: New-Format Digital Television Report on Cable, Satellite, & Terrestrial Set-top & Infrastructure Market Analysis 1999-2002 tracks market growth (2-15-99) (Business Wire) (PRNewswire link)
- Internet Refrigerator: the ultimate internet appliance (2-12-99) (WIRED)
- MeterNet offers branded private-label set-top boxes to companies (2-12-99) (Business Wire)
- BSkyB to offer Internet TV to UK viewers (2-11-99) (The Independent)
BSkyB will offer Internet access and email through Open's interactive TV service. Open is the interactive TV company owned by BSkyB, BT, Panasonic, and HSBC bank. Interactive services will be free to BSkyB digital subscribers. - BSkyB deal with AOL does not necessarily mean AOL-TV in UK (2-11-99) (ZDNetUK)
- BSkyB interactive service to begin in Spring '99 for UK; ONdigital admits faulty boxes for competing UK dish digital service (2-11-99) (The Guardian)
- Interactive TV set-tops for cable TV head towards universal design (2-10-99) (CNET)
- UniView to develop set-top boxes for FreeLinQ for video-on-demand & internet use in multi-dwelling apartments (2-10-99) (Business Wire)
- Cox & Scientific-Atlanta announce deployment of Explorer 2000 set-top boxes for Las Vegas cable subscribers (2-10-99) (PRNewswire)
- Videotron to deploy Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 2000 set-tops in Montreal (2-9-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
- Family TV sets head towards interactive digital in UK (2-9-99) (Birmingham Post)
Telewest spokesman Stephen Powers is quoted as stating, "Payment will work in a similar way to that which people currently use to get cable television and telephony. They will not have to pay pounds 300 to 400 pounds to get a digital set-top box - instead it will be paid for as part of a subscription charge." - Digital TV is the name of the game (2-8-99) (San Diego Business Journal)
- Scientific-Atlanta versus General Instrument: My Box Can Beat Your Box (2-8-99) (Forbes)
- @Home developing interactive TV (2-8-99) (CNET)
- MediaOne selects General Instrument DCT-2000 set-top box for digital services (2-8-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
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MediaOne partners with Canal+, DiviCom, General Instrument, and Philips for OpenCable-compatible set-top platform (2-8-99) (PRNewswire)
- Mr. Internet TV - Internet TV for the People; Interview with John Bentley, inventor of Internet on TV (2-6-99) (ruel)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: John Bentley, inventor of Internet on TV, personal website (2-6-99)
It should be no surprise that the original "Mr. Internet TV" actually has his own personal website.... - WebTV blasts into satellite orbit: WebTV-capable EchoStar 7100 Satellite Receiver (Feb-99) (Club WebTV)
WebTV co-founder Phil Goldman talks a little bit about the WebTV-capable EchoStar 7100 Satellite Receiver and the WebTV Plus Service for Satellite. The new box will have a 8.6 gigabyte harddrive and will come installed with "Doom" and "You Don't Know Jack" games. As well as receiving satellite transmissions, the new box is also a "Digital Video Recorder" (DVR) meaning it is also a more-than-a-VCR device for recording TV shows. Goldman says this is "the very first ever Internet TV satellite product and service." The WebTV-EchoStar box provides a new way for watching TV. - EchoStar-WebTV satellite data access service aims for mass appeal (2-1-99) (Interactive Week)
ZDNet's Interactive Week reports the the EchoStar-WebTV box is "expected to cost about $500. The WebTV service will cost $24.95 per month." - Telewest to use Pace set-top boxes in UK; drops Sun's Open TV (2-5-99) (The Scotsman)
- Telewest to deploy UK enhanced TV services using NCI software (2-4-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
- Telewest to offer digital TV in UK (2-4-99) (CNET)
- NTL offers Internet TV in UK at 15 pounds a month (2-4-99) (The Daily Telegraph)
The Daily Telegraph in London reports that NTL is offering Internet TV service at 15 pounds a month using a telephone-based set-top box accessing the Virgin Internet service. - Untangling future TV (2-4-99) (CNET)
- Quantum Quickview provides another more-than-a-VCR set-top box solution for watching instant replay on home TVs (2-4-99) (Business Wire)
- 3D TV without the funny glasses (2-3-99) (BBC)
- ACTV opens shop in TCI's national digital center in Los Angeles (2-3-99) (Business Wire)
- Hong Kong Telecom to use Motorola's Streamaster set-top technology (2-2-99) (South China Morning Post)
- General Instrument to supply DVi-5000+ set-top boxes to United Pan-Europe Communications (2-1-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
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LSI Logic announces channel-receiver & tuner chip for set-top boxes (2-1-99) (PRNewswire) (alternate link)
- Interactive Program Guides: TV Guide versus Microsoft-WebTV (2-1-99) (CNET)
- Infra-Com's Red Beamer provides infra-red "telephone line" to WebTV; Philips considers including Red Beamer with Philips WebTV products (2-1-99) (PC World)
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