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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went!
INSP 86.10+5.4%Nov 10 3:59 PM EST

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To: sandintoes who wrote (13736)11/3/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: RTev  Read Replies (2) of 28311
 
I've never seen WebTV except at various demos. It uses some really nifty technology to try to make web sites more readable on a TV, but they're stuck with "monitors" that have truly dreadful resolution.

Anyone looking at their computer screen right now is probably seeing this page at a resolution of at least 640 X 480. Your TV set, on the other hand, has a resolution of (if I remember my Amiga NTSC days correctly) 640 X 400, and even that is accomplished only by running two different scans on a real resolution of 320 X 400 (which causes noticeable flicker on a non-mobile image).

The TV is a bad appliance to replace a computer. It isn't made for that purpose. Some folks will make do, but not many.

That's exactly why WebTV has de-emphasized the Web part to concentrate more on TV add-on services.
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