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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (486)	7/21/2000 5:22:12 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) of 46821

"Instead, these services will be available via the set top box under a separate operating system. And of course, these new channels that will be accessible through the set top box will not be sharing bandwidth with cable modem spectrum." Frank- This brings up something I've been pondering lately as I've delved into TV land. Say you do the above. Say it's works incredibly well. Then what is to keep the hundreds of millions of content providers, ISPs, anyone and their brother with a iMAC and digital video camcorder, from going to the FCC and crying Foul! If successful, and they are allowed/forced onto this new network diagram you describe(full blown bandwidth to the STB), I think that the Mother of all Pandora's boxes(pun intended) just opened up. It will turn the ENTIRE broadcast world UPSIDE DOWN. Not that I don't personally like it a lot, but I'm not a member of any NAB, MPAA, RIAA, or MSO for that matter.<vbg> I just think it's very dangerous territory we're talking about here and I can't imagine this can't be seen by anyone involved in trying to make this happen. So I see DELAY, DELAY, DELAY written on this plan. Don't you think others of the above named groups see this same thing too? -MikeM(From Florida)

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