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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone?
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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (8798)8/24/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: B Spears  Read Replies (3) of 11417
 
Taken from todays Red Herring. These guys need to be talking to WAVE. If they are going to encrypt and cache this data stream then they will have to talk to WAVE.

Cheers

Bob Spears

The threat to Replay and Tivo

The personal TV servers sold by Replay and Tivo are
ground-breaking advances. But the Internet could make both
products into historical curiosities.

With a proper network and storage
architecture, any show can be delivered to
any customer at any time, or paused or
rewound. For example, the Canadian
company iMagicTV replaces the cable
television infrastructure with TCP/IP,
broadcasting everything in streaming MPEG
format. You put one of its special DSL
modems on top of your TV, and
iMagicTV-equipped "cable companies" stream channels and shows
on demand. The television basically becomes a Web browser with
a TV-like user interface. IMagicTV plans to roll out "Network
VCR" and "Timeless TV" products in the future. (Also in the
iMagicTV value chain: Newbridge Networks's DSL hardware and
Pixstream's TV-to-MPEG encoders.)

Cable (and phone) operators will jump on this technology and find
ways to charge for it. It also gives back to broadcasters the control
of the commercial-skip functionality that's threatening their
revenues.

Many people will want to keep their TV show storage local; many
people also still have answering machines. But just as
phone-company voice mail is a threat to the answering machine
market, network storage of entertainment will have a serious impact
on Replay and Tivo
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