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- Showtime and HyperTV Networks to enhance television programming with synchronized web content and community chat (15SEP99) (ACTV)
- HDTV broadcast over Internet2 (15SEP99) (CNET)
- HSBC to offer interactive banking via BSkyB on television sets (15SEP99) (BBC News)
- Related e-commerce item: Online buyers are no longer nerds (15SEP99) (BBC News)
- Microsoft fixes WebTV email security bug (15SEP99) (CNET)
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Virgin JamCast to provide music and games with no wait time for PC and set-top users (15SEP99) (PRN)
Wavo and Virgin Entertainment know that people want music-on-demand. PC users have access to music-on-demand. Set-top users definitely want music-on-demand. (Just look at all the WebTV users who have been begging for an updated RealAudio....) -
Open TV to be featured on "Business Now" television show (15SEP99) (PRN)
- Broadcast.com working on $1899 "set-top PC" box with CompUSA (15SEP99) (PCWORLD)
Broadcast.com wants you to buy a $1899 deluxe "set-top PC" box that has a 600 MHz processor, DVD drive, 27 gigabyte harddrive, ethernet card, a HDTV tuner card, pre-loaded movies and music, and the capability for wireless broadband Internet access via digital TV broadcast signals. Regular readers know what I would call this box: it's a "power PC-TV box" and it is backed by Broadcast.com, soon-to-be parent Yahoo, and CompUSA. PC World reports Broadcast.com chairman Mark Cuban as saying, "A set-top box is a stupid computer that isn't upgradable, has no hard drive, and you can't take it back. What good is that?" Cuban is perhaps thinking too much like a PC user. The Broadcast.com box sounds like a good "power PC-TV box," but the average TV watcher will probably balk at the $1899 price tag. -ruel - Content to be king tomorrow with increased channels via internet-enhanced television (15SEP99) (PCWORLD)
- Nokia prototype box with Linux, Java (and Mozilla) could set standards (15SEP99) (IT-Director)
Imagine this possibility: Nokia boxes and Motorola boxes in a head-to-head battle over the U.S. retail set-top box market with WebTV boxes, AOL-TV boxes, Scientific-Atlanta boxes, and everyone else. Although the WebTV boxes have a head start in the retail market, Nokia and Motorola may have an edge with their wireless phone marketing experience and resources. And like there are cellular phones and digital PCS phones, you'll have telephone dial-up boxes and digital cable/satellite boxes (and eventually the DSL boxes). -ruel - CNET picks at PlanetWeb browser on Dreamcast videogame box (15SEP99) (CNET)
- CNET says no WinCE on Dreamcast and no WebTV (use the PlanetWeb browser with AT&T WorldNet instead) (15SEP99) (CNET)
Wolverine X writes in: "Windows CE is actually included in
each [Dreamcast] disc itself. WebTV can in fact be utilized via the Dreamcast as the U.S. version differs
only slightly from the Japanese version. The reason WebTV is NOT being offered by the Dreamcast is
unknown, but one would have to assume that it was a choice by either Sega or Microsoft.
The particular article you linked to in and of itself shows [CNET's] poor understanding for
WinCE's role in the Dreamcast. WinCE's role is for multiplayer gaming, online gaming,
and easy PC game ports. The online gaming aspect of the Dreamcast ...
will not be a reality until next year. No online gaming equals no need for WinCE games.
Again its not that the Dreamcast doesn't support WinCE; it's the fact that
WinCE games could not be utilized at this point and time...."
- Sega says no online gaming until 2nd half of Y2000 (17SEP99) (ZDNN)
- NBC to create interactive channel with ValueVillage and to build SnapTV.com website (15SEP99) (InternetNews)
- Broadcast Information Links (BIL) to connect television and internet (15SEP99) (IWIRE)
- Dawn of E-Life (20SEP99) (Newsweek)
Not really about set-tops, but about how the internet and interactive communications are changing the lives of everyday people.... - Motorola agrees to buy General Instrument for $11B (15SEP99) (WIRED)
- Motorola to buy General Instrument in $11B stock swap (15SEP99) (CNET)
- ABI says Motorola-GI merger makes sense (14SEP99) (PRN)
- Motorola said to be negotiating to buy General Instrument (13SEP99) (CNNfn)
CNNfn reports Motorola could buy General Instrument for $10B. General Instrument is "the cable industry's top source for TV set-top boxes." When cable set-tops go retail, watch for Motorola to market and distribute set-tops in the mainstream like cellular phones. -ruel - CNET reports some General Instrument investors worried Motorola not paying enough (14SEP99) (CNET)
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Uniview working with Cayman Systems on ADSL set-top box (14SEP99) (PRN)
- Microsoft says will deliver MSN instant Messenger for WebTV, WinCE, MSN Mobile Service, and Mac (14SEP99) (PRN)
- Microsoft releases version of MSN instant Messenger for Mac and plans versions for WebTV, WinCE, and MSN Mobile Service (14SEP99) (Industry Standard)
- Microsoft to release versions of MSN instant Messenger for WebTV, WinCE, and wireless (14SEP99) (MSNBC)
- OpenTV, TPS, and Thomson Multimedia team up to offer set-top box with built-in digital recorder for downloading movies for video-on-demand in France (14SEP99) (WIRED)
- Sightsound.com to begin for-pay downloads of 65 full-length videos and films over the Internet (14SEP99) (WIRED)
- MyWeb Chinese-language TV portal reaches 1M daily page views (14SEP99) (asia.internet)
- Top telcos testing technology for high-speed two-way videoconferencing from FVC.com (14SEP99) (MSNBC)
- Embedded commerce to pay the bills; click an actor's clothes to buy (13SEP99) (SiliconAlleyDaily)
- How much interactivity to put in television; don't detract from the TV watching (10SEP99) (SiliconAlleyDaily)
- Set-top sales predicted to boom (13SEP99) (allNetDevices)
As previously reported, ABI (Allied Business Intelligence) predicts digital set-top boxes will reach 252 million units by the end of Y2004. - Pace manufactures Digital set-top box with personal television recorder and using NDS XTV interactive technology (13SEP99) (PRN)
- Pace to provide secure interactive television services using encryption (13SEP99) (PRN)
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Pace moves headquarters for Americas to Florida (13SEP99) (PRN)
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Liberate teams up with Sun to accelerate adoption of Java for interactive television (13SEP99) (PRN)
- Pssst: Microsoft working on "X-Box" set-top videogame box (13SEP99) (WIRED-Reuters)
- Developers in London said to be briefed on details for Microsoft "X-Box" set-top videogame console (12SEP99) (ZDNN-Reuters)
As previously reported by CNET, the "X-Box" is said to be a powerful 500 Mhz box. And as also previously reported by CNET, videogame maker Acclaim's CEO Greg Fischbach said, "If you see Sony and Nintendo [game consoles] as being the future set-top box, then you would see a motivation for Microsoft to do that," i.e., get into game consoles. - Emmy Awards Show showcases effect television had in 20th century and will have in the future (12SEP99) (Variety)
During the 51st Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards television show, Bill Maher of the ABC television show "Politically Incorrect" presented a segment on the future of television where you can watch digital television, see multiple thumbnail preview screens of various TV channels all at the same time, click onscreen links for more information about whatever you may be watching, order the clothes that an actor may be wearing on a TV show, order a pizza so you can eat along with whoever is eating pizza in a TV show, etc. where the future of television is interactive. The HDTV and interactive technology for this part of the awards show was provided by Texas Instruments.
Watch out, folks. Interactive television is getting ready to go mainstream. -ruel - Digital Coast '99: Hollywood believes in interactive television, PC-TV, digital television, and hi-speed broadband video over the web (10SEP99) (WIRED)
- Viewgraphics' MediaPump XL helps Peach Networks deliver interactive content to cable subscribers (10SEP99) (Peach)
- ATEF releases specifications for enhanced television programming (13SEP99) (allNetDevices)
- ATEF releases royalty-free license for development of enhanced television (10SEP99) (PRN)
- ATVEF releases royalty-free license to develop enhanced TV content; spec availability and new adopters add momentum for enhanced content and services for 1999 and beyond (10SEP99) (ATEVF)
- El ATEF introduce licenciaslibres del pago de derechos de patente con vistas a desarrollarcontenido realzado para la televisión (10SEP99) (PRN)
- O ATEF divulga licença isenta de royalties para o desenvolvimento de conteúdo aperfeiçoado de television (10SET99) (PRN)
- L' ATEF lance une licence sans redevances pour l'élaboration du contenu de la télévision améliorée (10SEP99) (PRN)
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ABI forecasts 252M digital set-top boxes by end of Y2004 with worldwide conversion from analog TV to digital TV (9SEP99) (PRN)
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