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To: Eric Jacobson who wrote (2810)	6/14/1999 7:31:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4134

Is a move like this positive or negative for cable equipment suppliers? Does it perhaps reduce the need for DWDM? Maybe it's for the better anyway as they can service better internet and telephone with out the loss of bandwidth to HDTV? Still, it would seem that there would be need for many more nodes if they had greater system demand for HDTV. Regards, Mark AT&T, NBC Sign High-Definition Deal By Karen J. Bannan June 11, 1999 10:40 AM ET The squabble between cable operators and over-the-air broadcasters over digital must-carry was slightly quelled this week. AT&T Broadband & Internet Services and NBC struck a multiyear deal that includes high-definition TV transmission. The announcement gives AT&T access to NBC programming - including the next five Olympic games - and AT&T gains carriage for NBC's digital signal over AT&T's systems. Under the agreement, NBC gives AT&T retransmission consent for all of NBC's 13 stations through December 31, 2008. In consideration for the consent, AT&T will transmit NBC's digital programming, including high-definition TV (HDTV), over all of its systems that have been upgraded to 750-megahertz Hybrid Fiber-Coax cable. NBC has the right to choose which version of HDTV it will broadcast; however, AT&T still retains the right to down-convert the content, reducing the horizontal resolution to an undisclosed resolution, said Leo J. Hindery, AT&T's president and chief executive. The move is an important one for both sides of the debate, said Gerry Kaufhold, a senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group. "It's a huge breakthrough. This lets the cable guys and the broadcast guys win," he said. "The cable companies aren't giving away their bandwidth like they might if a must-carry rule was put into effect, and the broadcasters make sure their digital signals are carried." The Federal Communications Commission has shied away from instituting a must-carry ruling, asking instead for both parties to work together toward a solution. CBS inked a similar deal late last year with Time Warner Cable. zdnet.com

To: Eric Jacobson who wrote (2810)	6/14/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4134

To all, one more story,one more good report. Monday June 14, 8:31 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Harmonic and OpenTV to Provide First Interactive Wireless Cable TV in Canada TRANsend Digital Headend Integrated with OpenTV's Interactive Services Platform CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999--Today at Cable '99 Harmonic Inc. (Nasdaq:HLIT - news) announced that it has implemented interoperability of its TRANsend digital headend with OpenTV's interactive television server system. This system is to be installed at IMAGE Wireless Communications of Yorkton, Canada, a Multipoint Multichannel Distribution System (MMDS) provider, and already a customer of Harmonic, having upgraded its headend to digital with TRANsend in April 1999. This installation sees the first pairing of Harmonic's TRANsend with OpenTV's OpenStreamer headend solution software that will deliver an interactive television service to IMAGE subscribers in the province of Saskatchewan. As well as being a first for Harmonic, this initial installation is the first interactive OpenTV wireless cable network to be deployed in Canada. Harmonic has been working with IMAGE to ensure compatibility with its existing system. This included the integration of the OpenTV-enabled TRANsend modules with Nagra Vision's conditional access system, as well as providing support for set-top boxes from Sagem. At the time of the initial upgrade to digital, IMAGE specified TRANsend because of its exceptional flexibility and its open architecture that allows the company to maintain its investment in legacy equipment. Capella Telecommunications, Harmonic's Canadian distributor, provides key technical support and training to IMAGE as it deploys TRANsend and Sagem set-top boxes. ''We chose TRANsend when we carried out the expansion of our digital MMDS system because this solution offered us the interoperability, flexibility and scalability to allow further expansion,'' commented Kim South, Vice President and CEO of IMAGE Wireless Communications. ''The ease with which we have been able to complete the next stage, with the addition of interactive services, bears this out.'' The IMAGE system is configured to receive MPEG-2 streams from OpenTV's OpenStreamer server into a TRANsend IRX 8000 MPEG-2 receiver, which is designed to receive multiple MPEG-2 streams, individual or multiplexed, from a variety of sources. These are then multiplexed for transmission over the broadband network using Harmonic's TRANsend QAM modulator. In the IMAGE deployment the signals are fed to a TRANsend EMX 8000 encryptor multiplexer module which allows the operator to scramble the multiplexed stream for delivering customized programming. This company is fantastic,it it more than I ever dreamed it was. Management is the key,and product engineering. Tim