Summer 1998 Table of Contents
Feature Stories
Turbo Television: What You Need To Build A PC/TV
It takes a few components, some software and a little tinkering, but digital convergence in the living room is easier and cheaper than you thnk with a PC/TV. Two comprehensive Buyer's Guide grids accompany our turbo TV how-to-article: PC/TV video cards and couch friendly keyboards, pointers and mice.
DVD Demystified: Exploring The New Disk Frontier
In a world of acronyms, competing standards, high-tech hardware, and those amazing little diskc, this is what you have to know about DVD. Read it, then get one.
Couch Commerce: How Combining the Internet With TV Can Change the Way You Shop
Home shopping is about to get a boost from combiining the two most powerful commerce media ever invented: the TV and the Internet. Try it, you'll like it.
Departments
Help Screen
- The More You Watch the Less You Know Danny Schechter
- A Family Guide to Media Literacy Gloria DeGaetano and Kathleen Bander
- Internet Family Fun: The Parent's Guide to Safe Surfing Bonnie Bruno with Joel Comm
URLs4TV: The Best Web Sites To Watch On TV
- The Alternative Entertainment Network www.aentv.com
- Sony Pictures Entertainment www.spe.sony.com
- Streamland www.streamland.com
- Spectacle www.spectacle.com
- Berkeley Systems www.bezerk.com
- Lonely Planet
- Bill Nye, The Science Guy nyelabs.kcts.org
- MSNBC.com www.msnbc.com
- Film.com www.film.com
- ITV.net www.eyetv.net
Smart Discs: Great CDs and DVDs for TV
- You Don't Know Jack
- Connections
Columns
Toob: Digital TV: Two Roads
Digital TV will soon be widely available. Which format of digital signal broadcasters will actually use - HDTV, SDTV or some combination of the two - remains to be seen.
Smartware: Software for Smarter TV
Utilities, applications and plug-ins to make your TV smarter. This issue we take a peek at a talking Web page, an amazing house and a darn friendly interface.
What's On: The Top TV Campanion Sites On the Web: The Net is a Tube's Best Friend
As the Internet hits the living room, broadcast and cable networks take their shows to the Web. This issue, we feature ESPN, PBS and Discovery Channel.
Black Boxes
- Thomson Consumer Electronics RCA N/C 1020
- Websurfer Inc. Websurfer
- Philips Consumer Electronics Philips WebTV Plus
Television for the Future: Flavors of Interactive TV
Interactive TV is finally coming of age and television, that steadfast media staple of the masses, is quickly changing into something few people imagined was possible just a short time ago.