It's cool looking back on this era (late 90s-early 2000s) for the fact that a lot of the tech we use today existed either as a concept or as a half baked prototype back then. A lot of that had to do with the software and especially the hardware catching up to the ambitions of the various companies.
This. Is crazy how tech evolves. For example, now we can see prototypes of AI and his application in some places. But in 20 years AI will evolve to something we can't even imagine.
@@Sergeant_Camacho I know, its both exciting and scary to think about. I don't think any generation of people are going to witness the sheer amount of change in their day to day lives as those that alive now.
In the UK there was a product called the Bush Internet TV which was like a set top box and keyboard users could plug into the TV. I was very basic even by early 2000s standards and I remember having to sit very close to the screen as text quality and page rendering was so bad. British satellite provider Sky also had an interactive TV service called Open
I showed my pops how to use CZcams on his Roku TV when he finally upgraded his TV he had since like 2011 or so lol. He used to watch YT on his iPhone, but now he is always watching YT on his TV anytime I come over. Considering we have way different interests, YT does have content literally for anybody. Probably why I'm helplessly addicted to this site, no matter how shitty it gets over the years lol.
I remember webtv lol. I had it back in 2000, it was pretty cool at the time. Someone mentioned in these comments and said that we haven't advanced since this. I beg to differ, Internet capabilities have gotten so much better since those days. The TV and Internet have really merged together into one service in some ways. Streaming movies and Internet on TV's is common place, at the time of this video broadband Internet was in its infancy days. It's not that we haven't advanced, all we do we was inhance it and perfect it 10 yrs from now personal computers won't even exist.
If I had seen this at the time I would have immediately been impressed by the AOL Messenger integration and when he said "or on your phone" I would have suddenly considered getting a cell phone a good 2 years earlier than I did, haha. Of course I did not use AOL but we do strange things when we are impressed by technology
A lot of this web surfing on a TV was very interesting, but I couldn't afford it at the time. For a matter of fact I still can't afford it today either. I like the idea of being able to buy stuff online, however that is why I have Amazon, eBay and Etsy online shops accounts nowadays. 🤔
Webtv flopped because everyone in the US only had standard definition TV at the time, and for a long period thereafter. The text flickered because of the 60Hz CRT refresh rate, edges were wonky because of the extreme curvature of consumer tv's (computer monitors were MUCH less curved), and color accuracy was poor. It was a painful experience that made people not want to use it.
Virtuos TVs at the time operated at ether 50/60hertz or 100 hertz for “Flicker Free” TVs. Also most of those text issues are probably down to things like running the signal over lossy connections like SVIDEO, composite, or RF. Under RGB (Usually SCART) text is rather sharp.
It is still happening so yes it happened but it has become more involved in interactive ads than programs itself. You can see some interactive shows like on netflix but it is far and in-between. Along with everything on tv nowadays is essentially interactive TV, with video on demand, built in sports scores, looking up movies by director ect.
Not really I had ultimate TV and AOL TV and they all closed down. Not I just have a bunch of unless set top boxes. So these days with HDMI, I just have my computer hooked up to my TV. Pump up the fonts a little dive I’m 8 feet away and Walla I have my own internet on my TV.
We have not come very far in 12 years. The slowdown of technology inovation is very apparant when you watch these shows. Humans need to get their act together and make something new,
Internet TV hasn't advanced much because we don't have much need of it anymore, since you can look stuff up and chat about shows on your smartphone, as well as shop anytime, anywhere on said device. At the time no one foresaw the release of the iPhone 6 years later that would forever change the way we interact with the Internet.
@@kevin12567 er, video streaming "internet tv" has advanced enormously since then. Everything that comes from a cable tv provider today is digital, when back then most of what you had was still analog signals. And then you have alternative streaming services from major networks that took a while to get going, but only because of copyright issues, not technical limitations. Most streaming today is in high definition and decoded in real time, which wasn't even computationally possible with processors around that time frame.
Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.
@Maskdingo Aren't you human too? Shouldn't you be coming up with great new ideas yourself? Besides, in the last 12 years we have progressed much further than at many other periods of history, just not as much as the prior 20 or 30
4:48 Video on Demand I can imagine even back then had Blockbusters wide eyed and a couple of drops of sweat.
It's amazing that i am watching this 20 years later on the toilet
Life with Computers and Tech was so much better before Social Media became a thing in 2005/06.
yea i was thinking what year did it all go wrong, smart devices was are downfall
It's cool looking back on this era (late 90s-early 2000s) for the fact that a lot of the tech we use today existed either as a concept or as a half baked prototype back then. A lot of that had to do with the software and especially the hardware catching up to the ambitions of the various companies.
This.
Is crazy how tech evolves. For example, now we can see prototypes of AI and his application in some places. But in 20 years AI will evolve to something we can't even imagine.
@@Sergeant_Camacho I know, its both exciting and scary to think about. I don't think any generation of people are going to witness the sheer amount of change in their day to day lives as those that alive now.
In the UK there was a product called the Bush Internet TV which was like a set top box and keyboard users could plug into the TV. I was very basic even by early 2000s standards and I remember having to sit very close to the screen as text quality and page rendering was so bad. British satellite provider Sky also had an interactive TV service called Open
My dad now watches more CZcams on his television set than he watches television shows. There are just so many good shows on CZcams.
I showed my pops how to use CZcams on his Roku TV when he finally upgraded his TV he had since like 2011 or so lol. He used to watch YT on his iPhone, but now he is always watching YT on his TV anytime I come over. Considering we have way different interests, YT does have content literally for anybody. Probably why I'm helplessly addicted to this site, no matter how shitty it gets over the years lol.
Wow so 2001 they though of smart TV already
Is it ironic we are all watching this on a video on demand service that is 100 times more advanced then what they are demoing on this show?
Yt came out 4 years after this
Not exactly ironic, but ok.
Is it anymore ironic watching a Windows 3.1 video on a computer running Windows 10?
@@GareksApprentice Yeah, it's not irony, just natural progression.
It's not irony, is evolution.
"You have to put in your pin" a 3 digit one :) nice and secure.
@Zeeslag 1000 has four digits not 3.
the highest number with 3 digits is 999 not 1000
R-tard
@Zeeslag Even a computer from that era wouldn't take very long to brute force all 1000 combinations
I remember webtv lol. I had it back in 2000, it was pretty cool at the time. Someone mentioned in these comments and said that we haven't advanced since this. I beg to differ, Internet capabilities have gotten so much better since those days. The TV and Internet have really merged together into one service in some ways.
Streaming movies and Internet on TV's is common place, at the time of this video broadband Internet was in its infancy days. It's not that we haven't advanced, all we do we was inhance it and perfect it
10 yrs from now personal computers won't even exist.
Looking forward to responding to this post in 2 years on my personal computer
The old version of netflix.
The layout menu to that iTV from Canal + U.S. Technologies resembles the Roku layout menu.
Trippy.
If I had seen this at the time I would have immediately been impressed by the AOL Messenger integration and when he said "or on your phone" I would have suddenly considered getting a cell phone a good 2 years earlier than I did, haha. Of course I did not use AOL but we do strange things when we are impressed by technology
I think it was about 2002 when I got my first video card with an output to a television. I haven't gone back since
Dammit! Another good one!
Jesus Christ, that Scott Blanksteen is one hot number, I could rewind and watch his segment all day long!! That boy is smoking HOTTT!!!!
I am a Game Developer and didn't like the way computers used to work. Now I do!!! : D.
A lot of this web surfing on a TV was very interesting, but I couldn't afford it at the time. For a matter of fact I still can't afford it today either. I like the idea of being able to buy stuff online, however that is why I have Amazon, eBay and Etsy online shops accounts nowadays. 🤔
That printer is basically a bigger wireless Gameboy printer
Webtv flopped because everyone in the US only had standard definition TV at the time, and for a long period thereafter. The text flickered because of the 60Hz CRT refresh rate, edges were wonky because of the extreme curvature of consumer tv's (computer monitors were MUCH less curved), and color accuracy was poor. It was a painful experience that made people not want to use it.
Who used 60Hz in early 2000s?
Virtuos TVs at the time operated at ether 50/60hertz or 100 hertz for “Flicker Free” TVs. Also most of those text issues are probably down to things like running the signal over lossy connections like SVIDEO, composite, or RF. Under RGB (Usually SCART) text is rather sharp.
if they had more than 999 customers, it's not really 'Personal Identification' haha!
6:24 when my 2023 mind said I'm going back to my smartphone.
Did "interactive TV" ever actually happen? Or was it all concept services?
It is still happening so yes it happened but it has become more involved in interactive ads than programs itself. You can see some interactive shows like on netflix but it is far and in-between. Along with everything on tv nowadays is essentially interactive TV, with video on demand, built in sports scores, looking up movies by director ect.
Not really I had ultimate TV and AOL TV and they all closed down. Not I just have a bunch of unless set top boxes. So these days with HDMI, I just have my computer hooked up to my TV. Pump up the fonts a little dive I’m 8 feet away and Walla I have my own internet on my TV.
It did but it was usually baked in with an internet/cable package
We have not come very far in 12 years. The slowdown of technology inovation is very apparant when you watch these shows. Humans need to get their act together and make something new,
Exactly, 2019 and things haven't changed much. Same technology, fancier GUI and fancy new names like 'Cloud' and 'Netflix' but same concepts.
Internet TV hasn't advanced much because we don't have much need of it anymore, since you can look stuff up and chat about shows on your smartphone, as well as shop anytime, anywhere on said device. At the time no one foresaw the release of the iPhone 6 years later that would forever change the way we interact with the Internet.
@@kevin12567 er, video streaming "internet tv" has advanced enormously since then. Everything that comes from a cable tv provider today is digital, when back then most of what you had was still analog signals. And then you have alternative streaming services from major networks that took a while to get going, but only because of copyright issues, not technical limitations. Most streaming today is in high definition and decoded in real time, which wasn't even computationally possible with processors around that time frame.
it's diminishing returns, that's always been a fact of tech, they bring it up often...
I had a WebTV
You both had a hard time finding porn quickly. I had a pc. My parents loved me.
What happened to the audio?
No audio
Duplicate: Interactive Television 2001
8:46.....same clothes....
Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.
lol
Viedo On Demand? Woah! That's un-possible.
#smarttvsarethefuture
@Maskdingo Aren't you human too? Shouldn't you be coming up with great new ideas yourself? Besides, in the last 12 years we have progressed much further than at many other periods of history, just not as much as the prior 20 or 30