Small type is fuzzy and indistinct on a TV screen. You're not likely to be happy with Web TV if you plan to browse typical Web pages. You won't find many pages like that. Web TV's own sites are exclusively made up of pages with big type and simple images, but you'd probably have a very hard time finding similar pages beyond the Web TV domain. Surfing the general Web is guaranteed to be a frustrating experience.
Web TV does have one big advantage.
You don't need a computer. In addition to viewing Web pages, you can even send and receive e-mail without a PC or Mac. But the way Web TV handles electronic mail is awkward, even if you add the optional keyboard. Web TV does not receive Web pages through your cable connection. It attaches to your telephone line just as a PC would.