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To: Rob S. who wrote (83173)	5/13/2002 2:49:01 PM
From: Patrice Gigahurtz	Read Replies (1) of 99985

You do write a sobering view point...... So I'll agree that entertainment driven "content" isn't going to cause a rush on PC sales (and related tech) any time soon as far as video-audio data real-time. However, for information in general you can't beat the speed of the WWW format. I get all my news from the WWW, hardly ever watch TV for news. I get all my stock market info from numerous web sites (for free). I buy the street version of WSJ only because the latter's web site isn't free. I'll watch TV for sports however. So the WWW has a place in our society that isn't going to change soon, in fact can anyone really see the day (soon that is) when less eyeballs each year are glued to the WWW ? At some point someone is going to figure out how to make serious $$$ from all those "eye balls". I would offer this for food of thought only: What if say a Yahoo used its loyal base of "eyeballs" to access downloadable movies for viewing on their desk top (for a fee of course) ? Surely at some point the downloadeded movie would play properly on the progressive scan screen (?). And assuming its download using DSL; what are we talking about, maybe 1hr download time ? Would you consider that a profitable scheme for say a market in rural America ? Thus, real time viewing of Video-On-Demand (VOD) isn't in the cards any time soon but as far as downloading "content" that people want to see later on their PC screen I just don't understand what's the holdup ? The markets there as well as the technology, what's the holdup ? Surely the download "movie" could have software protection that would disable the "movie" after say two viewings (?). Thanks

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