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Technology Stocks : WavePhore (WAVO)- VBI fed WaveTop for WebTV
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To: Jerry S. who wrote (2549)1/8/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Ken Turetzky  Read Replies (1) of 2843
 
Why? WAVO has no idea what to do with its technology. If they did, they would have aligned with BCST to broadcast digital TV using PC-TV tuners and the VBI. But they don't do things like that. They just issue themselves stock options and convertible preferred shares that are almost guaranteed to keep the price down.

Oh, yeah, I meant to make this the one message in 50 that actually attempts to offer useful information about WAVO's technology instead of the usual cheerleading or whining about lame TV stock commentators.

From the current InfoWorld:

IP to dominate in 1999 and beyond

IP also is being carried over the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of analog TV signals. This unidirectional technology, which uses the lines that are off the TV screen, is used for encoding data and then used for sending additional information that is not part of the picture. One current use is closed captioning, but in the future, industry observers predict broader uses.

"It can be used to provide Web URLs in conjunction with a video broadcast," the IETF's St. John says.

However, analysts note that although analog TV will be around for a while, it will also be replaced someday by digital TV, so VBI is considered as more of an intermediate system.

infoworld.com
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