Enhanced Television requires a set-top box. Whoever controls access to the box controls the enhancements. The features of the box and the middleware running on it determines what kinds of enhancements can be provided. Deployments of boxes and middleware are listed for various content standards within each transport. The controlling companies and best estimates of served households are included.

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Features & Standards Supported
Middleware - Hardware Platform

• Deployment - Estimated Number of Subscribers

Personal Video Recorder
TiVo - Philips, Sony, Panasonic

• TiVo - ???

Web on TV
WebTV Classic - Philips MAT960/965, RCA RW2100, Sony INT-W100/W150

• Microsoft WebTV Classic - 500,000

Web on TV with TV Hyperlinking
WorldGate - Motorola & SA digital cable set-tops - ???

• ?

Wink ICAP
Wink - Motorola & SA digital cable set-tops - ???

ATVEF Transport A
WebTV Plus - Philips MAT972/976, RCA RW2110, Sony INT-W200/W250, Mitsubishi WB-2001

• Microsoft WebTV Plus - 500,000

AOLTV - Philips WVH111

• AOLTV - ???

Basic Interactivity

• GI/Motorola DCT-2000

• Scientific-Atlanta 2000 (Discontinued)

Advanced Enhancements

• GI/Motorola DCT-5000+

• Scientific-Atlanta 2010

• Scientific-Atlanta Explorer Series

• Sony Advanced Digital Set-top

Personal Video Recorder
TiVo for DirecTV - Philips DSR6000R, Sony SONY SATT60

• TiVo - ???

Wink ICAP
Wink - All current generation RCA models except DTV 100

• DirecTV Interactive - 9,800,000

ATVEF Transport A
AOLTV/Liberate for DirecTV - Philips - ???

• AOLTV - "Coming Soon for DirecTV "

ATVEF Transport A + PVR
UltimateTV / Microsoft TV for DirecTV - Sony, RCA

• UltimateTV from Microsoft

WebTV Personal TV for DishNetwork - EchoStar 7100/7200

• WebTV / EchoStar Personal TV - 5,700,000

Personal Video Recorder
None

ATVEF Transport A or B
None

DASE
None

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