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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR)
CCUR 1,940-14.0%Jul 30 2:38 PM EST
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To: VeloSpeed who wrote (10047)7/8/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Nimbus  Read Replies (4) of 21143
 
Let's hope you're right !

I'd say it could speed things up, and more servers would/could be sold faster. I'm not sure if SFA or GIC would participate in embedding their logic in TVs. I'd doubt it. One complant about the SFA/GIC STBs is they are not "expandable" as the market will demand they be. The TV industry realizes and are building great scalability/connectivity into their iTV TVs. It's much cheaper for the TV designer to build it right in, and I suspect they have been doing just this for the last few years to have units ready to build when the infrastructure is ready.

With such a "in-home" scheme, you should be able to get the VOD stream (and internet service) from either cable or DSL and route it to any/all TVs and PCs in the Home Network, just like you can with analog (in the case of the TV signal). SFA/GIC has stripped out every extra transistor in order to make the STBs cheap ... like they always have done with STBs, and I think TV makers are taking advantage of that "habit" in order to gain market share ... sell more and fancier TVs.

Should be fun ... but yes .... let's crank out some servers ! All the VOD servers I'm familiar with should be able to work with such none-STB schemes in theory.
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