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Sony Set-Top Boxes Bring Interactive TV to New York, New Jersey.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 1999 by May, Jeff
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 17 -- Cablevision plans to pay Sony roughly $1 billion for digital set-top boxes that will allow the cable-television company to offer video on-demand and other interactive services in New Jersey and New York.
The Long Island-based cable operator will start installing the first of 3 million boxes next summer, and plans to have the entire metropolitan region hooked up within three years, said Cablevision president and CEO James Dolan.
"We're going to roll it out as aggressively as possible," he said, although he declined to say exactly where the service would be offered first.
Cablevision is the largest cable company in New Jersey, with some 915,000 subscribers. All told, it has more than 2.7...
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