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NOTE: Part of WebTV's service includes periodic service upgrades. These can take two forms. The first are Client upgrades, which must be downloaded into our box's flashrom. The second type are Server (service) upgrades which can occur at anytime.

These letters were sent to subscribers to announce Client Upgrades. Server Upgrades such as Etude, Funk, Grunge and Hiphop, if not connected with Client upgrades, are typically not formally announced.

These letters often contain links and image embeds or are themselves entirely embeds. But, due to WNI's continued determination to prevent direct access to WNI URLs outside of WTV "trusted pages", these original links and embeds no longer worked outside on a web page. Like an old movie, these letters had to be "restored".

Thanks to wasdiscovered@webtv for discovering the trick to convert wtv-content:/ URLs to wtv-tricks:/content URLs. This has restored much, but not all, of the original material. For example the Summer 98 Plus Upgrade Letter embed is not currently working as but works as a link. Since these embeds are based on WebTV's proprietary commands, PC users will not be able to access them.

As for you old-time WebTV users, I hope you enjoy this blast from the past! Newer subscribers may also appreciate how far WebTV has come.