[Am-info] TV set top boxes

[John Poltorak]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:55:11PM -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> 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.

Is there any place to get details of units shipped or market share?

Does Microsoft have deals with any of these companies or is it going to 
start up its own company as with the Xbox?

I didn't know until recently that Microsoft wanted to buy out Nintendo 
rather than start out as a newcomer. Wonder what plans they have for set 
top boxes...
 
>    Mitch Stone
>    mitch@accidentalexpert.com

-- 
John