[ALarryR]

In the August 2000 issue of Upside Magazine there was an interesting article covering Interactive TV.

www.upside.com/texis/mvm/ebiz/story?id=396656e10


If the page this brings up has unprintable characters, click on the printable version link (right side of page), that one is readable. I believe that Upside has some problems with its Web Site.


Cheers-Larry

 

[Marcus]

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.


Marc in San Antonio


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[Marcus]

Just read it.

Nice. An interesting overview of what's in the wings for broadband delivery of video and data.


Marc in San Antonio


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[Lori]

I'm confused. The article states that:

Quote:

Nearly 700,000 American households already have stand-alone "personal TV" (PTV) boxes from ReplayTV Inc. or TiVo that put VCR-style controls on live TV -- allowing them to pause, rewind, fast forward and slow-mo their favorite TV programs. TiVo's users give the system thumbs up or down to suggested programs so TiVo can look for patterns and automatically record shows users are likely to enjoy. Replay allows viewers to create their own channels.

700,000? Last numbers I had put TiVo at aout 51,000 and Replay at, what, 15,000? Where are these other 600,000+?


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--Lori

Captain, TiVo Army

Moderator, TiVo Funny Farm

 

[jasonl99]

Lori,


Those are UltimateTV boxes http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif .

 

[stzaske]

The 600,000 units are the DirectTV units...I believe.

 

[PRMan]

Not hardly. They sold 600,000 units in a month or two?


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[RandyL712]

Are you saying that only 15,000 people have a Replay (or showstopper) ? It HAS to be more than that. I personally know 4 people (and _I_ have three) and I don't know ANYBODY http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif That number seems grossly underinflated.