A telco in the UK called Kingston Communications has had this sort of service deployed for a few years now. The service is called "Kingston Interactive Television", KIT.
This service offers standard (digital) broadcast TV channels, interactive TV services such as shopping and email, video on demand etc. The STB also has an Ethernet port for connecting a home LAN and uses VoDSL to provide POTS voice.
I recall reading about a similar (identical?) hack using Silicon Graphics h/w in the mid-1990's. There were schematics etc. for hooking up the Nintendo PowerGlove to ports on the Indigo workstation and other SGi systems.
I don't have URL links to hand, but Google/Deja is Your Friend.
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A telco in the UK called Kingston Communications has had this sort of service deployed for a few years now. The service is called "Kingston Interactive Television", KIT.
This service offers standard (digital) broadcast TV channels, interactive TV services such as shopping and email, video on demand etc. The STB also has an Ethernet port for connecting a home LAN and uses VoDSL to provide POTS voice.
I recall reading about a similar (identical?) hack using Silicon Graphics h/w in the mid-1990's. There were schematics etc. for hooking up the Nintendo PowerGlove to ports on the Indigo workstation and other SGi systems.
I don't have URL links to hand, but Google/Deja is Your Friend.