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- WorldGate brings Internet to worldwide cable subscribers' TVs (5-25-99) (PRNewswire)
Non-U.S. companies signed up with WorldGate include Cablevision S.A. de C.V. Mexico, Cable Bahamas, Toya in Poland, Retecal in Spain, TeleCable in Spain, SuperCable in Venezuela, Telefonica Multimedia in Peru, TVCable in Ecuador, Cablevision/TCI in Argentina, Image TV in Brazil, SkyCable in the Philippines, in Korea INC, DCS, NIC, YSC, BCN, DNC TV, and Singapore CableVision, and Saturn Cable in New Zealand. - WorldGate TV-Web technology patent approved (5-24-99) (Reuters)
- WorldGate awarded U.S. patent for Channel HyperLinking internet-to-television technology (5-24-99) (PRNewswire)
- AOL to use GemStar technology to make custom electronic program guides for AOL-TV (5-25-99) (CNET)
- AOL teams up with Gemstar to make electronic programming guides for AOL-TV.(5-25-99) (InternetNews)
- Scientific-Atlanta shows off digital reverse path products and interactive television services at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo (5-25-99) (PRNewswire)
- Different Information Device: Daewoo to sell fax-email device (5-26-99) (allNetDevices)
- Spyglass provides internet solutions for IBM's digital set-top box reference platform (5-24-99) (PRNewswire)
- TeraLogic supplies graphics technology for Toshiba's CANAL+ MEDIAHIGHWAY-certified terrestrial digital TV set-top box for the UK (5-24-99) (PRNewswire)
- Datamonitor Stats: Interactive TV ready to grow (5-20-99) (CyberAtlas)
- Ready, Set, Launch...Scientific-Atlanta says digital TV interactivity is here (5-20-99) (PRNewswire)
- Ted Turner Jr., e.TV boxes, and 21st Century version of "Amway" network marketing (5-20-99) (CNET-Reuters)
The CNET-Reuters report states, "R.E. 'Teddy' Turner, son of media mogul Ted Turner, is getting ready to deliver the Internet to the masses through a 21st-century version of Amway." The younger Turner, his Compu-DAWN company, and the e.TV network-marketing subsidiary are selling BocaVision set-top boxes branded with the e.TV brandname. They are also selling telephone long-distance, paging, wireless, and internet services. They also have a home-shopping network that is apparently meant to be the default shopping venue on the e.TV boxes. The CNET-Reuters report states, "The Jacksonville, Florida, company already has recruited about 18,000 sales representatives in the United States and Canada, but only 4,000 set-top box customers...." (emphasis added) Informal reports say that there will be e.TV informercials to be broadcast on television selling the e.TV boxes and related services.
FYI, for several months, I've been receiving ocassional email messages from e.TV independent distributors recruiting new distributors for their marketing network. Their MLM-type fees for new distributors range from $495 to $795. I don't know if that includes the e.TV box that they say they are selling for something like $379. The e.TV-recruiting email has not been as frequent as with the past round of FutureNet-recruiting email, but they are just as enthusiastic. e.TV faces huge market competition from the digital cable set-top boxes delivered to cable subscribers for "free" (or paid with nominal monthly lease payments), the WebTV boxes, the FreePCTV set-top box giveaways, and all of the other boxes. And, if you're wondering, I did NOT sign up with e.TV (like I did NOT sign up with FutureNet), but you may want to check out e.TV yourself if you are wondering what e.TV is all about. -ruel - NCI changes name to Liberate Technologies and gets $50M (5-19-99) (PRNewswire)
Liberate Technologies, formerly NCI, wants to liberate the information device world from Windows software technology. The press report in part states, "Liberate is a leading provider of a standards-based software platform that enables the delivery of Internet-enhanced content and applications to a broad range of information appliances: television set-top boxes, game consoles, smart phones, and hand-held computers." Investors in Liberate Technologies include Comcast, Cox Communications, General Instrument, Hambrecht & Quist, Lucent Technologies, Marubeni, MediaOne, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Sun Microsystems, and Wind River Systems. - OS Hopen to challenge WinCE for China's set-top market (5-18-99) (EE Times) (alternate link)
- WebTV extends deal with SurfWatch to provide international filtering for child-safe surfing (5-18-99) (PRNewswire)
- TV broadcast networks scramble to deal with new media era (5-17-99) (NY Times)
- Future of entertainment is in a box, maybe even in a video game console (5-17-99) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- TV Guide Interactive surpasses 2M subscribers (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
- Household Direct invests to provide satellite interactive set-top service (5-17-99) (Business Wire)
- Nokia announces launch of Nokia Mediamaster 9850 T for ONdigital and UK terrestrial services and Mediamaster 9800 S for digital free-to-air satellite services (5-17-99) (Business Wire)
- CableLabs to use NDS test technology for OpenCable set-top box interoperability process (5-17-99) (Business Wire)
- Tao to mount JBC Virtual Machine for Java applications on LSI Logic's set-top box reference platforms (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
- Can AOL do TV better? (5-17-99) (Internet World)
- Microsoft buying net devices market share (5-17-99) (allNetDevices)
- AT&T-Microsoft Deal related news (really a press release from competitor Bell Atlantic): AT&T said to be raising monthly cable rates $6.50 for subscribers of AT&T cable holdings (5-18-99) (PRNewswire)
- Possible significance of LSI Logic advances and Spyglass licensing deals regarding possible future of set-top boxes (5-17-99) (CNET)
- LSI Logic aims SC2000 chip at set-top market (5-17-99) (EE Times)
- LSI Logic announces SC2000 source decoder chip for set-top boxes (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
- LG Electronics licenses Spyglass software for digital TVs and set-top boxes (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
- Advent Communications partners with MeterNet to launch "Intelligent Television" set-top solution for network marketers (5-17-99) (BusinessWire)
- Red Herring names ATI as one of the top 50 technology companies (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
ATI makes the ATI All-In-Wonder line of TV tuner cards for computers and the recently announced ATI Set-Top Wonder II boxes. - Red Herring names TiVo as one of the top 100 technology companies (5-17-99) (PRNewswire)
TiVo makes "more-than-a-VCR" digital recorder set-top boxes. - Bill Gate's set-top boxing (5-14-99) (Salon)
- Television archives hopes to digitize television newscasts for internet scholars (5-14-99) (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Strategy Analytics says 34 million homes switch to digital television (5-14-99) (PRNewswire)
- World CallNet's telephone-based Mail.TV keyboard email devices for TV to cost $55 per unit (5-14-99) (PRNewswire)
- World CallNet files for patent for Mail.TV technology (5-13-99) (PRNewswire)
- FCC says users can buy digital cable TV boxes instead of renting (5-13-99) (ZDNN-Reuters)
Consumers will be able to buy digital cable set-top boxes in retail stores. Then they must get the security modules from the cable TV company in order to get the digital box to receive the cable signals. Analog boxes are exempted from these FCC rules for the U.S. cable. As previously reported, sales of cable set-top boxes at retail are to begin July 2000 and cable companies are to no longer provide the boxes in 2005. The FCC declined cable operators' request that the 2005 phase-out date be extended or scrapped. - Network-marketing company 21st Century Net signs deal to market Acer set-top boxes (5-12-99) (21st Century Net)
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