Cable Boxes Get Gauntlet With Set-Top Games Deal

Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting a press release revealing a U.S. company called TvHead is attempting to make inroads into the games-via-cable-TV market, and has "secured agreements with... Midway Games [and] PopCap Games" to publish games such as Bookworm, Gauntlet, and Smash TV for availability as part of a cable TV service. The company's founder claims that: "Gaming revenues via interactive television have been projected to be as high as $2.7 billion by 2006", and players are meant to "...access the TvHead Games Channel with their remote control just as they would any other channel." The company's official site links to a recent CED magazine article that discusses advances in this area, including ICTV "showing off a version of Quake playing on DCT-1000s and DCT-2000s [cable boxes]."

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Openscorce DCT-2000

[NateSac]

I have one of these set top boxes. I think they'd make a great platform to open up to open scorce development, maybe some geeks around here could port linux to it, maybe steal or reverse engineer it to work. *dont mod me down cause Im a dreamer*