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To: Alf who wrote (3898)	12/6/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: jw	Respond to of 14778

Tim, great URL. ot/hens lay, dogs lie<eom> <ggg> Regards, /jw

To: Alf who wrote (3898)	12/8/1998 7:49:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>box for Internet TV ... Tim, I have been hoping that someone with knowledge would answer this, but apparantly we're fresh out of that so I will answer in its absence. The following is based on my inference from the web page reference, NOT on anything I really know. I don't see anything that leads me to believe this box has mass storage (a disk). It has memory and EPROM. That means, if correct, the browser and whatever OS there is is in the EPROM, meaning it will support at MOST what they marketing people say it will. That seems to let out Realaudio and Java (except Javascript, a simpler engine). Look at the carefully worded "Supports Javascript for home banking" statement. If it supported ReadAudio and Jave, they would have said so. To update it, my guess is you will have to flash the EPROM, which is probably what they mean by downloadable updates from the web. That will be iffy at best. It's not at all clear how you might do that, but I suppose (if they have any credibility at all) something in the custom browser would allow it. Even so, you would be at their mercy as to what to provide next -- no plugins from anywhere else. Again I warn that these are my guesses from reading the page. Sorry no one with real info seems to have surfaced. Anyhow, it's against this thread's policy to let a question go unanswered, even if we don't know the answer, so there you are <ggg>. BTW, Gateway makes a genuine, no-kidding TV/internet PC. I haven't paid much attention to it myself, but from memory it is a minimal PC which uses a (I think 32 but maybe 27 inch) TV as its monitor, with a remote keyboard and mouse. The TV is usable without the PC. Since it's a real PC, you can install or download anything you can with any other PC (within its limits). I'm speaking present tense, but I admit I haven't read anything about it in some time, so maybe it is no more. But it definitely was around, and sounds a lot closer to what you were talking about than this Mitac turkey. Spots