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MSN TV (formerly WebTV) is a Microsoft-owned company that provides set-top boxes and a service that allows viewing Internet content on a television screen for a monthly fee. Also the appliance with the same name. It is estimated that there have been roughly 1,000,000 WebTV boxes sold.
The WebTV Classic box provided basic "Internet On TV" functionality. The WebTV Plus boxs and MSN TV Internet Receivers also include TV enhancements. The enhancements are triggered by an EIA 746A standard URL in text channel 2 of the closed caption signal on line 21 of analog video. The enhancement content is retrieved via an analog phone line connected to a built-in modem.
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