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| Description: WebTV was a series of set-top boxes released in the late 90s to bring the Internet -- or rather, the Internet in its infancy -- to people's TVs. There were two more boxes, the MSN TV and MSN TV 2, but the soundtracks for those aren't here because they would be considered sequels. ;) On the "Dialing Philips-Magnavox Web TV": This version of Dialing WebTV could only be experienced on Philips-Magnavox models. This happens since the Philips-Magnavox models use a different Beatnik (the audio engine WebTVs rely on) patch set than what the songs were encoded to play with initially. Sony and a few other manufacturers' boxes would switch patches after the loading screen, but Philips-Magnavox models do not, or at least that's what I think. | Description: WebTV was a series of set-top boxes released in the late 90s to bring the Internet -- or rather, the Internet in its infancy -- to people's TVs. There were two more boxes, the MSN TV and MSN TV 2, but the soundtracks for those aren't here because they would be considered sequels. ;) On the "Dialing Philips-Magnavox Web TV": This version of Dialing WebTV could only be experienced on Philips-Magnavox models. This happens since the Philips-Magnavox models use a different Beatnik (the audio engine WebTVs rely on) patch set than what the songs were encoded to play with initially. Sony and a few other manufacturers' boxes would switch patches after the loading screen, but Philips-Magnavox models do not, or at least that's what I think. (The sound you hear at the beginning of the Philips-Magnavox song is the box starting up.) |