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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (42092)	6/14/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Digital Services................... cedmagazine.com Time Warner's Pegasus............... Time Warner Cable's "Pegasus" digital program is also being aggressively brought to market, but without all the hyperbole. Digital services are in the process of being deployed in more than 30 markets, although company officials have only been willing to publicly discuss activities in Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Tampa, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; and Hawaii. In those markets, Time Warner is deploying the Explorer 2000 digital set-top from Scientific-Atlanta, as well as Pioneer's Voyager digital set-top. Originally, S-A had the right to precede Pioneer in box deployments, but delays have made it possible for Pioneer to offer its equipment at essentially the same time that S-A's gear debuts, according to Mike Hayashi, vice president of advanced engineering at Time Warner Cable. Philips wants to "TryMedia" again................... Over at MediaOne, which announced early this year that it would deploy a digital system that's based on both OpenCable and DVB standards, work continues to get set-tops from Philips married to middleware from Canal Plus and headend gear from Divicom. Although the waters have been muddied recently because of the AT&T takeover of MediaOne, the goal is to launch the system by the end of June. "We're working really hard, and the signs are really encouraging," Bud Wonsiewicz, MediaOne Group's chief technology officer, recently told CED sister publication Multichannel News. "I (recently) visited Philips and Canal Plus and was really amazed by what I saw. It confirms my feeling that DVB is going to be quite an amazing innovation in the industry." Wonsiewicz likes the DVB approach so much because it has worldwide backing with countless operators in Europe, as well as several set-top manufacturers. That latter category includes GI, which has committed to building a DVB-based device. That amount of support will naturally lead to lower-priced equipment, Wonsiewicz says. "They (GI) are committed to a DVB, OpenCable implementation," he adds. "I'm using DVB a little loosely because we're using their conditional access but we're using the rest of the North American electrical standards. We've had a number of discussions with other firms about pushing the standard forward. We're pretty optimistic that you'll be seeing significant events."