TV, NetChannel can turn a televisionset into an Internet terminal that enables users to send e-mail, interrogate the Web or share ideas with various interest groups around the world (eg, alt.nature.beehives).
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his televisionset: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
The current boom may be a product of the changing economics of the television business, but reality TV is also the liveliest genre on the set right now.