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To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (2663)	2/17/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Nimbus	Read Replies (1) of 21143

Sarnoff/Diva gambled. The strategy was to be first to market at the high end and offer it as painlessly as possible to the market. Getting this system to work has been very hard and most "standard" approaches have yet to be really tried. The "take-rate" of movies at the Sarnoff trials shows people will pay to view, especially for porn, as long as it can be done all on-line. The money speaks for itself. Time Warner is so damn big and slow they likely will never decide what is the right way to go, in the meantime the pioneers will make a killing. I can name many proprietary schemes that became standard (defacto), most noteably is SCSI which was SASI from Shugart Associates, and Ethernet. The Sarnoff "technology" can be documented and replicated but this won't occur until they are done mopping the floor. My work in this area indicates that high end VoD can't bee done affordably with standard machines. It takes a new computing architecture, and Sarnoff invented one that does, well ahead of the pack. Sarnoff also invented MPEG BTW ... they are good.

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