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Technology Stocks : Scientific Atlanta -SFA- going up ???
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To: Drake who wrote (869)8/10/2000 8:24:58 AM
From: Allegoria   of 1045
 
"Harmony" agreement between NextLevel and Scientific-Atlanta. Does anyone remember any of the details of this agreement?

TIA,
Eric

Ref: cedmagazine.com

"The Microsoft investment in Comcast," says Robinson, "sparked an acceleration of (a) desire to really understand that middleware/software solution. This is especially true given that NextLevel and Scientific-Atlanta and the rest of the industry have pretty much nailed down the hardware-physical layer stuff. It highlighted that there is a lot of uncertainty left in the software stack. And with Microsoft saying it has a lot of confidence in the (cable) platform with its $1 billion Comcast investment, it got people moving and saying, 'Hey, we've got to move faster on this'."

The "physical layer stuff" Robinson refers to was covered by the recently-announced "Harmony" agreement between NextLevel and Scientific-Atlanta. In that cross-licensing agreement, the companies agreed to use NextLevel's data encryption standard (DES), while NextLevel has the option to license S-A's DES. In addition, they agreed on five transmission-related building blocks that will be included in their respective digital set-tops. This includes: MPEG-2 audio and video decoding and transport; quadrature amplitude modulation; Dolby AC-3 audio; and ATSC system-information tables.
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