[Am-info] TV set top boxes

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.05.04 06:18 PM, John Poltorak typed: ============

>It seems like Microsoft is again muscling in on the TV set top box market 
>after its initial failure with Web TV.
>
>Who is it up against?
>
>I'm aware of Metabox who went bust some time ago, and PACE, but I have no 
>idea who the big players are. 
>
>Can anyone tell me?

   Do you mean hardware or software? The software players are OpenTV (Sun 
spinoff, I think), Liberate (I'm invested in that one), and Microsoft. I 
don't know much about the hardware side...


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