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To: Mr. Aloha who wrote (330)	5/31/1996 12:04:00 AM
From: rd greer	of 6570

Bryan, check out this interview, actually a discussion of the PC versus the TV on the Internet's future. If this doesn't lock me out next time, I'll post the URL below. If so, look for the URL in a follow-on post: rd ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Messrs. Stearns and Jermoluk discuss how quickly telephone and cable-TV companies will move to build high-speed communications lines. The interview was conducted by Thomas E. Weber on Jan. 17; the first voice you will hear is that of Mr. Stearns. The second is Mr. Jermoluk's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Consumer's Choice WSJ: Let's move on and look at things from the consumer's perspective. We don't have those big pipes yet, but we're already talking about consumers viewing the Web from their sofa using that magic Internet appliance. Yet the Web at this point is not a couch medium. Is there a potential for a false start? MR. STEARNS: There is a real potential. The Web is evolving very rapidly. It won't be long before people are going to want to put full-motion video and 3-D graphics and telephony and stereo sound and all kinds of other traffic, and that is very bit-intensive and therefore requires a lot of bandwidth. And I think we're building a level of expectation in the minds of consumers that is going to be far short of reality unless we get big pipes in there. MR. JERMOLUK: We did a project in Orlando with Time Warner where we got a lot of experience turning on 4,000 homes into this new digital era of access. We also got a lot of experience in what kind of device we'd have to build for that. And the underlying technology has been advancing very rapidly, as evidenced by the project that we did with Nintendo. That's a $250 retail device that has a tremendous amount of power built into it. The challenge is using more and more of that power to build a more-intuitive interface for the home-consumer couch potato, if you will, to be able to figure out how to access this wonderful world of data. ------------------------ interactive4.wsj.com (There, it worked. The entire session is much longer)

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