WebTV Previews LC2.5 Home Page
Last Updated 6/3/99 6:53 PM PST
Friday 6/4 will be my last day at WebTV
Hello Goldies, Tomorrow
will be my last day at WebTV Networks Inc. It has been great working with all of
you. Marcus will be replacing me sometime next week. I will be moving on to
beenz.com. You can check them out at www.beenz.com -Ethan
Things to Test
Email Tests
Print Screen
Print Black text
Print a
saved mail
Print your reply including original message Print attachment
Print decompressed attachment
Print mail with signature and short
message Print a message with a photo
Print a fetch remote mail
Print
less than one page long
Print one page long mail
Print 2 and a half
pages mail
Print exact 3 pages long
Print more than 7-10 pages long
Print with different text sizes
Web Side Tests
Print screen
Print in black text
Print date and Web Info
Print background images
Print Picture only
Print only Text
Print picture and text
Print
text in different color
Print variety of webpages
Print pages that
including a audio file
Print a webpage created by webtv box
Print less
than one page long
Print 2 and a half pages
Print exact 3 pages long
Print more than 7-10 pages long with lots of graphics including graphic on
the background Print main TalkCity page Print list of Chat rooms Go into a chat
room then print
Error Handling Tests
Print without paper
Print
door open
Print with no ink cartriges
Print without printer connecting
Print with printer not totally connected
Power off in the midle of
print, then power on and try to print again Printer
Upgrade Ahead!!
Hello Gold Previewers, We will be releasing a minor upgrade to you tomorrow.
There won't be any bug fixes in this upgrade, but there will be support for more
printers. We will be fixing the client bugs you have been reporting in a larger
release down the road. Here is the list of the printers that WebTV will support
with this upgrade:
Cannon
BJC-1000
BJC-2000
BJC-6000
H.P.
DeskJet 610C/612C - future model
DeskJet 810C/812C - future
model
DeskJet 830C/832C - future model
DeskJet 880C/882C
DeskJet
895C
If you have one (or more) of these printers, please print away when you
get the upgrade. I will be giving you some more directed testing later. Thanks,
Ethan
WebTV LC2.5 New Features
~Grunge~
Grunge is a major
overhaul of the way WebTV looks today, and there are many new features. New
Features
Your Pages - This feature will allow WebTV users to build their
own web pages on the WebTV network. Publishing is easy and self-explanatory, and
once you get there it will be quite simple. From the Home page, select
Community, and then select Your Pages.
Goodbye Explore, Hello
InfoCenters! - With the tremendous success of MyWebTV, we've decided to merge
MyWebTV and Explore to make a bigger and better source of information for our
users. This feature will be called InfoCenters, and it will provide links to
WebTV Today, News, Sports, Entertainment, Money, and Shopping. Within each of
these InfoCenters you will find that you have more control over what you see.
Improved Settings and Account Information - You may notice that there is
no longer a "Using WebTV" link on the Home page. Don't worry, with Grunge we've
made it easier to access and change your account information and settings. The
two new links- Settings and Account - will lead you to new and more informative
pages. We are particularly excited about the new Billing Statement link on the
Account page. This new feature will provide our paying customers with a way to
access their Billing Statement on-line.
Better Help - It's now easier
than ever to get help with using WebTV. The convenient Help link on the homepage
provides four different sources of information: Tour, Instructions, Help Center,
and Club WebTV.
Email Name - By popular demand, WebTV users can now send
email and post to newsgroups from their primary user's account without having to
include their real first and last names. Under Mail, select Settings, and then
select Mail name.
Dynamic new ads! - With all the changes we've made with
Grunge, you may also notice that there are some new advertisements on various
pages. Advertisements allow us to bring new features and upgrades to our
customers at a low monthly cost.
Happy testing! Ethan and Noel
New
Features of the LC2.5
No hard drive
V.90 soft modem
Front RCA inputs
Multiple TV favorites
As you can see there are not many new features
in this box. The real test is to see if it performs as well as the LC2. Here is
a list of file types that the Plus is compatible with to refresh your memory If
you are not familiar with a technology, select this link to find out more
information about it: PC WEBOPAEDIA
General MIDI
MIDI Karaoke
QuickTime Audio
MOD(MOD, S3M, 669, MTM, IT, STM and XM formats)
SSL
40 bit and 128 bit Encryption
RealAudio 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
.AU
.SND
.WAV
.AIFF (Mace 3:1 and Mace 6:1 compression of AIFF files unsupported)
GSM
MPEG-2 Audio, MPEG-3 Audio
MPEG movies
Shockwave Audio
Zip Decompression
HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.2 with Frames and JavaScript Support,
Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
Compatible GIF
GIF89a Animation
JPEG
Macromedia Flash 2.0
Full Newsgroup
Reading/Posting
X Bitmap
Embedded HTML
Formatted Text
CSS (style
sheets) subset
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) support
WebTV Build notes and known issues
Last Updated 4/19/99 at 4:30
P.M.
Build Notes
Build 5560
Bugs fixed in this build: Streaming
audio - please play audio files (any type/format). The box should not crash, but
sound may be interrupted by unpleasant resonnances (okay, loud noise). If you
are not sure if the problem you are having is related to a known problem, please
submit a report. Better safe than sorry.
Thanks, Noel and Ethan