• Find your favorite television programs with an electronic program guide that is always up-to-date.
• Watch television programs on your monitor, even while you are using other software applications.
• View interactive television programs that enhance television shows with additional, more interactive information about the show.
• Receive information such as Web pages, multimedia files, and software upgrades over the broadcast airwaves, so you do not have to tie up a phone line.

Many kinds of applications can be run on Microsoft WebTV for Windows 98, from traditional Windows-based applications to standard broadcast TV programs. In between is a new application space: interactive television, is the melding of interactive content with an audio/video source.

For example, an interactive baseball game or cricket match might provide a score card, player stats, and a continuous ticker of scores from around the league, in addition to the television signal.

Currently, WebTV for Windows 98 supports both cable and over-the-air broadcast transmissions for National Television System Committee (NTSC) programming. Satellite and other broadcast transmission standards will be supported in the future.

In designing interactive content, internal Microsoft producers have been using a set of standards based on open, standard Internet technologies.

For more information on Digital TV, see http://www.microsoft.com/DTV/. For more information on WebTV, see http://www.webtv.net/.