"Advanced users who for years collectively looked down their noses at WebTV will be surprised at how capable MSN TV 2 is and how well it works in home networks," reports AP (here or there) in a product review.
"In geekspeak, it's a media adapter, a category of home networking gear that can stream such content as pictures, music and video from networked PCs to the television.
"MSN TV 2 does much more than your average media adapter. It also puts content on your tube including news, the weather and the entire Web. And, like a PC, it can be expanded by plugging devices such as memory card readers and printers into its two USB ports."
According to the Reuters story, it is "aimed at the more senior end of the market".
"Our average user is 57 years old," said Andy Sheldon, senior director of product marketing for MSN TV. "These people are getting to the age where they don't want to deal with complicated ways of connecting to the Web."
