[Am-info] TV set top boxes

[Mitch Stone]

On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== 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...

Pioneer, Gerold and Scientific Atlanta are the big three, I believe.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com