[STB] Comcast may offer Web access through cable set-tops

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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	[STB] Comcast may offer Web access through cable set-tops Looks like Comcast may allow subscribers to use cable set-tops to access the Internet sometime in the future: Comcast may offer Web access through cable set-tops FierceCable - April 9, 2012 »www.fiercecable.com/story/comcas···12-04-09 The intro: "Comcast has developed technology that could allow subscribers to use cable set-tops to search the Web for video and buy products featured in TV programs with their remote controls, according to a patent application obtained by FierceCable."
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25139889 join:2011-10-25 Toledo, OH	AT&T does this - or at least some what similar.
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telcodad join:2011-09-16 Lincroft, NJ kudos:2	reply to telcodad An item on the Zatz Not Funny! site about this: Comcast Files Patent Application for Web TV Tech By Mari Silbey, Zatz Not Funny! - April 9, 2012 »www.zatznotfunny.com/2012-04/com···tv-tech/ The intro: "Now that most of industry’s original interactive TV companies are dead and gone, Comcast may be looking to revive the one thing those iTV enterprises promised above all else – a way to access the web on your TV. FierceCable’s Steve Donahue uncovered a patent application today (»www.fiercecable.com/story/comcas···12-04-09) detailing how Comcast might enable web-based search engines and TV-based commerce on cable set-tops. In the application, Comcast also notes that it could link its iTV platform to content from other video service providers, potentially knocking down a wall or two around the cable garden landscape."
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