What's on TV? How about the WWW

December 20, 1996
Web posted at: 12:45 a.m. EST

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- New and inexpensive routes to the Internet are opening up, even for the terminally non technical. Forget http addresses, browser configurations, plug-in software and everything else scary about the Internet. A new generation of Internet appliances, simpler than computers, are generating a new wave of Web heads.

"Web TV" service offers a box that goes on top of the TV set, plugs into a phone line, and transports the user into cyberspace.

Brad Hill from Web TV Networks describes how easy it is to operate. "Even if you know nothing of computer difficulties, software and hardware, and everything else, there's nothing to configure. It's completely easy and affordable."

A "Web TV" appliance, complete with remote and wireless keyboard, is available right now in the TV department for around 350 dollars. Hookup service to "Web TV" comes in at well under 20 dollars a month and that gives you the World Wide Web, e-mail, and citizenship in the information age.

The Sega Saturn "Netlink" device connects to the popular CD game platform. "Netlink" is a 200 dollar add on to the 200 dollar Sega Genesis system, and like the "Web TV" service, Internet connection service is well under 20 dollars a month.

 

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