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To: DiViT who wrote (26693)	12/15/1997 3:41:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) of 50808

Good news that Zenith is in Intel's camp. But what's this? Intel's digital-TV thrust is based on cutting the cost of a living room appliance by eliminating separate MPEG -2 and Dolby AC chip sets and shifting the decompression work to software on the Pentium II. For the show demonstration, Zenith used a 300-MHz Pentium II for a 420-line progressive-scan computer screen. A 740-line progressive-scan or full 1,028-line interlaced HDTV format would require a 400-MHz microprocessor, which Snopko said he expects Intel will have next year. They won't fit a 400MHz Pentium II into a $300 STB........

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