Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 2, 2001, at 12:13 PM, Wandered Inn wrote:
>
(SNIP)
> > Following the link noted above, it indicates that it is used to interact
> > with M$ interactive toys (Barney, Arthur..) Doesn't say anything about
> > webtv.
>
> Better late than never, so here goes... :-)
>
> I work at WGBH Interactive, which produced and supported the server-side programming
>for the Barney and Arthur Actimates. I didn't personally program it, but the guy who
>did is two doors down the hall. I can tell you with reasonable authority that yes,
>the same encoding method is used to send that data as is used to send "enhanced" data
>to WebTV Plus.
>
Thanks for the clarfication.
> The catch is, even though the low-level protocol used to encode the data for
>transmission within a broadcast signal is the same, the data format and
>application-level protocols are incompatible. It's sort of like how HTTP, SMTP, FTP,
>et al are different, even though at a lower level they all share the same transport
>mechanism - TCP/IP.
>
> We use the same method, btw, to encode the web "markers" that you see on Nova. If
>you have a WebTV Plus, those are live links.
I don't do 'Microsoft,' ergo, I don't have webTV(plus, minus,
whatever..):)
>
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