Battle of the boxes. (Microsoft demonstrated its WebTV set-top box at a meeting of UK television executives; British Interactive Broadcasting also showed off its set-top box)(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, October, 1997

BRITAIN'S television bosses gathered at the end of September in the medieval glory of King's College, Cambridge, under the august banner of the Royal Television Society, as they do every two years, to agree that British television is better than anybody else's. But amid the talk of past triumphs, a battle for the future was being fought. Craig Mundie, a Microsoft executive vice-president, had come to show the British the wonders of his new WebTV Mark II set-top box, while Peter van Gelder, managing director of British Interactive Broadcasting (BIB), demonstrated his set-top box, through which Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will broadcast the digital service it plans to launch next April.

Microsoft's belief in the convergence of television and the Internet is embodied in...

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