Saturday, September 25, 2004
Microsoft Set to Release New Media-Friendly Set-Top Box
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"Microsoft plans to start shipping a new set-top box next week, and it's not your grandmother's WebTV. Though MSN TV2 is the successor to the original WebTV devices, the new box is a vast departure from its predecessors. On the outside, it's slick, with new video-playback and photo-viewing programs, and a custom version of Internet Explorer 6 designed to make Web browsing on the television a far less painful process. On the inside, it's a Windows CE-based product with a 733MHz Celeron--slow by PC standards but downright zippy in the world of set-top boxes."
Sounds interesting, although the claims that they'll support video playback over 802.11b is dubious. I wonder if they're referring to Web-based video..
Sounds interesting, although the claims that they'll support video playback over 802.11b is dubious. I wonder if they're referring to Web-based video..
