Classic

EmailClassic: E-mail

Keep in touch with friends and family through email. Send and receive messages with anyone on the Internet. A personal address book keeps email addresses handy, and a spellchecker keeps spelling errors out of your messages.

Six Private Email accounts

With WebTV Classic, you can have up to six email accounts. This means that everyone in your home can have his or her own email address.

Classic: Chat  

Chat

With WebTV Classic you can chat about everything and anything that interests you- stocks, stamp collecting, yoga, sports - right from your sofa.

 

Classic: Explore the InternetExplore the Internet  

With WebTV Classic you can explore the Internet right from your television. Plan vacations, check your stocks, and find information about your hobbies using just a remote control. WebTV Classic even helps you search the Internet by keyword or category to find Web sites you are looking for.

 

 

Classic: WebTV CentersWebTV Centers

WebTV Centers bring you up-to-the minute information on News, Money, Sports, Entertainment, Shopping, and more. The Centers gather information about a topic and also direct you to popular Web sites related to the topic. WebTV Centers become your personal guide to important information to you.

 

Page BClassic: Page Builderuilder

Have you ever wanted to have your own Web site where you can post photos for your friends and family to see, or share your hobbies with the world? Now you can build your own Web site with WebTV Classic - Page Builder is the easiest way to build and publish your own personal Web pages.

 

 

Classic: For the Kids

For the Kids

For kids and parents, every WebTV service subscription includes Surfwatch®, which keeps kids from accessing mature Web site content. There is also Kid Friendly™, a fun and educational area built just for kids.

 

 

Products: Classic: Specifications
  • Internet Access
  • 6 Email Accounts
  • Chat
  • Discussion Groups
  • WebTV Centers
  • Search
  • Kid Friendly™ service
  • Surfwatch®
  • Personalization
  • Favorites
  • Build Personal Web Pages
Hardware/Models
Required hardware

Internet Terminals

Manufacturers/Models

Philips Magnavox MAT965
Sony INT-W150

Philips Magnavox MAT960
Sony INT-W100

Availability

Currently Available

Currently Available

Phone Modem (Kbps)

56 Kbps v.90 capable

33.6 Kpbs capable

 

8MB, 2MB, 4MB

2MB, 2MB, 2MB

Processor

150Mhz R5230

112 Mhz R4640

Caching

Check

Check

Use an ISP

Check

Check

Call Waiting Support

Check

Check

Smart Card Slot

Check

Check

Universal Remote Control

Included

Included

Wireless Keyboard

Optional

Optional

Mic Input

Check

 
Printer Port

Check

 
Printing Support

Select Hewlett Packard and Canon printers

HP Series 400 and 600 color inkjet

 
Software/Internet Compatibility
HTML
  • HTML 1.0
  • HTML 2.0
  • HTML 3.2
  • Frames Compatibility
  • JavaScript 1.2
Image
  • GIF89a animation
  • JPEG
  • Progressive JPEG
  • PNG
  • TIFF-G3 Fax in email
  • X bitmap
  • Macromedia™ Flash 1.0
  • Macromedia™ Flash 2.0
Transaction
  • SSL version 2 and 3, 40bit and 128bit RC4 encryption
  • Credit Card Fraudulent Use Protection
Email
  • MIME Compatible
  • Sound and images
  • Embedded HTML
  • Formatted Text
  • Spellchecker
Audio
  • .AU
  • .WAV
  • Real Audio 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
  • AIFF
  • Shockwave™ Audio
  • GSM
  • MPEG-1 Audio
  • MPEG-2 Audio
  • MPEG Layer 3
  • MOD
  • General MIDI
  • MIDI Karaoke
  • Quicktime Audio
  • Zip Decompression
Video
  • MPEG-1 Video
  • VideoFlash™
Usenet
  • Full newsgroup reading/posting
  • Automatic decoding of most encoded binaries
Chat
  • IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
  • HTML Chat
ISP
  • PPP
  • PAP

 

 

 

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