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To: David Howe who wrote (53755)	12/3/2000 11:43:22 PM
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One more area of terrific future growth that I haven't mentioned yet. siliconinvestor.com << Among the various interactive TV initiatives, perhaps the most ambitious is Microsoft's UltimateTV, which marries a full-featured DVR to WebTV-like Internet capabilities. The Microsoft Show Expected to launch by the time you read this, UltimateTV requires a $399 set-top box that you'll buy retail; Thomson/RCA and Sony are the initial vendors; Sony's box comes with a keyboard (you'll have to buy the dish separately), and a DirecTV dish accompanies RCA's (keyboard sold separately). You'll also have to pay a monthly service fee of $10 or $15 on top of a DirecTV programming package (which start at about $30 a month). In the demonstration we saw, the digital video recorder features looked particularly impressive: You can record up to 35 hours of programming, which you ferret out either by browsing or by searching the electronic program guide. When you are ready to watch a recorded show, simply click the My Shows option in a menu that appears when you turn your set on. UltimateTV works only with digital services (AT&T is committed to supplying 7.5 million UltimateTV licenses to digital cable subscribers starting this year); as a result, Microsoft says, recordings are superior in quality to those made from analog TV services. You can also record one show while watching another--something not all DVRs permit you to do. The $10-a-month UltimateTV service includes 3 hours of WebTV-style Internet access via a built-in 56-kbps modem. That's enough to let you dash off an occasional e-mail or surf to a program-related Web site during commercial breaks. If you already have an ISP, you can pay Microsoft an additional $5 per month in exchange for unlimited use of the account with UltimateTV (Microsoft says it imposes the charge because you will be accessing its servers for some content). >>

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