You Don’t Have to Be an Advanced User to Use WebTV
All of us know what a webTV is and why it is so popular nowadays. WebTV is specially-adapted TV set created with the purpose of allowing internet connection by means of online TV transmission over the internet. It is catered for all categories of people who in one way or another are interested in searching and watching TV on the go.
What we need to have an access to the live TV? A scintilla: pc (plus high-speed internet) or mobile TV phone (preferably DVB-H format integrated). The other point is your skills and knowledge to use these devices.
In general the term webTV involves a whole category of products and technologies that enable you to surf the Web. If you have got a dial-up access, so it makes a connection to the Internet via your telephone service and then converts the downloaded Web pages to a format that can be displayed on your TV.
More recently, the name WebTV has been trademarked by Microsoft.
This technology that known as WebTV was invented (but the technology was already developed) in 1996 by Diba Inc. and Zenith Electronics, who produced and marketed the first WebTV sets. Later companies produced $300 webtv add-ons including Sony and Philips Electronics, who made webTV boxes separate from television sets. WebTV sets are currently under $100.
In 1997, Microsoft bought the WebTV network for $425 million dollars and have trademarked the name. Some years ago webTV was associated with as an add-on device that compliments a regular television, usually a box that provides the internet connection and conversion of web pages for viewing on your own television screen with an added special remote control and keyboard so that you can surf from your sofa in comfort.
But since humankind achieved higher prosperity and obtained better results. Today we just use our computer or mobile TV devices to surf the net in various purposes.
MSN TV (formerly WebTV) is the name of both a thin client which uses a television for
display (rather than a monitor), and the online service that supports it. The product and service were developed by WebTV Networks Inc., a company purchased by Microsoft Corporation and absorbed into MSN (the Microsoft Network).
As we know every video sharing site or service uses that or those specially developed player or viewer. MSN webTV is no exception. It offers the WebTV Viewer, which simulates the TV browser on your personal computer, includeing the information whether your web content is appropriate for the receiver.
“It has tools to show you how content is altered to look the best on a television screen. There is a special window that shows how tables and images are scaled, information that is not available on a standard receiver. It even contains utilities for creating triggers and sequencing them into a file for use when your links are incorporated into a broadcast.
The Viewer does not have a TV tuner, so all of the broadcast pictures are simulated. That’s why it’s important that you perform your final testing on a real WebTV Plus Internet receiver connected to our service.”
Download the WebTV Viewer for Windows® 98, Windows® Me, Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP (version 2.6, build 46) (6.8MB).
Download the WebTV Viewer for Macintosh® (version 2.0, build 551) (5.8MB).
Well, don’t waste your efforts, use the approved methods and technologies.
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