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To: DiViT who wrote (33164)	5/12/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) of 50808

Future sub-$1000 PCs may be settops (are they raising the price of settops or lowering the price of multimedia PCs?)........ Set-top boxes may fill "sub-$1,000" slots By Stephan Ohr AIX-LE-BAINS, France - The machine that fills consumer expectations for a "sub-$1,000 PC" may resemble a set-top box more than an X86-based PC, according to Darryn McDade, software manager for the Advanced R&D group of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics. "Home terminals" will be used more for Web browsing and entertainment than for traditional computer functions, McDade said. While PC and consumer electronics manufacturers debate whether the convergence of PCs and consumer electronics will result in a PC with entertainment functions or an entertainment console with PC functions, McDade said that consumer demand for DVD and HDTV playback point toward the latter scenario. That development could utilize SGS-Thomson's MPEG-2 decoding and set-top solutions, and would undercut Intel's power and influence in the market for home terminals, according to SGS-Thomson. Indeed, Microsoft Corp.'s description of Windows 98 and its promotional material for Windows CE imply that the machinery that displays a user interface and runs applications software under one of those OSes may not necessarily be an Intel X86-based computer. The user interface for Windows 98 is - both literally and figuratively - a Web-browser. That suggests a possibility that the applications run by a system may not reside on the hard disk, but may be downloaded (like Java applets) from the Web. More..... pubs.cmpnet.com

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