This flurry of news seems to validate Brett's cynical note over the weekend ...
>From Benton:
REDMOND COMPANY LEADS CONVERGENCE REVOLUTION
Issue: Convergence/Television
Berst predicts that 1999 is the year of the long-awaited marriage of
television and the Internet. Here's what he sees: 1) Internet-enabled
televisions (NetTVs) will be the surprise hit of the 1999 Christmas season;
2) WebTV will garner its one-millionth customer this year; and 3) the AOL
Anywhere initiative will be extended to television (soon). When convergence
comes, Berst writes, you may start getting video through your phone line
instead of your cable wire and set-top boxes will probably run on Windows.
Stellar One makes set-top boxes with all these wonderful capabilities: Surf
the Internet over your TV (like Microsoft's WebTV), View video-on-demand
(like a better version of today's hotel-room systems), Pause, rewind or
fast-forward a program (like the digital VCRs from Replay and Tivo), Watch
"enhanced TV" -- TV with a wraparound Web page (like the new WebTV Plus) ,
Access email (like an Internet-equipped PC), and Shop from a video catalog
(like a high-end custom kiosk).
[SOURCE: ZDNet AnchorDesk, AUTHOR: Jesse Berst]
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3182.html>
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