Sony, Microsoft Join In TV Project

Tue., Jan. 24, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

Sony Corp. said Monday it has agreed to align itself with Microsoft Corp. in development of components for two-way TV.

Under the agreement to be signed soon, Sony and Microsoft will discuss details on what products they will develop jointly.

Sony is interested in developing software and hardware for interactive television, or so-called “set-top box” systems to monitor video signals for a home television screen.

Sony executives declined to discuss further details, but the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the leading economic newspaper, reported the two companies plan to market the “set-top box” systems by 1996. The Wall Street Journal quoted a Sony spokesman as saying it would take the two companies a longer period of time to do that.

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