July 20, 1998
Microsoft's WebTV Networks offers customers an easy, affordable way to enhance their television viewing experience with additional choices and control. WebTV is a set-top box designed to deliver entertainment, information, and interactivity to television. WebTV integrates TV with the Internet so that users can enjoy interactive programming, explore their interests with easy access to the Internet, and communicate with family and friends via multimedia e-mail and chats.
If you're a developer, "enhanced television" offers you an opportunity to excite, entice, and retain a larger audience. Your Web site can effectively reach the growing television audience, as well as continue to attract your existing audience. WebTV's new developer site, http://developer.webtv.net , offers hundreds of tips, suggestions, and guidelines to help you author for WebTV.