Motorola box adds Wink to its eye. (Broadband Week).(Charter Communications Inc. wil use digital set-tops with integrated software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

Multichannel News, March, 2002 by Brown, Karen

Building on the idea that less-sophisticated digital set-tops can carry interactive services, Motorola Inc. has given Wink Communications Inc. the nod to ride along on its UCT2000. An integration project that took more than a year combined Wink's electronic-commerce software engine with TV Guide Interactive's electronic-programming guide on the DCT 2000.

The integrated software has been launched on boxes in Charter Communications Inc.'s beta-test bed in Madison, Wisc.; plans are to roll it out in 13 more systems in the next 30 days. Charter has deployed more than 1.5 million DCT-2000s. "I think it is exciting as you start looking at the interactive situation -- the interactive-TV future -- and it is really going to get people used to interactive...

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