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To: Paul Engel who wrote (83464)	6/15/1999 5:14:00 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "Just think - in a few years, we can look forward to having our Televisions lock up, perform ILLEGAL Operations, and endure 3 minute REBOOT times to get the TV back into working order. Not to mention the yearly $89 updates to fix some of the software problems found during the prior year and to provide a host of new bugs!" Paul {============================} Hi Paul, So true: A PC-TV device should NOT be rebooted! It needs to be "telco quality," not "PC quality!" ...And good chips inside telco quality units :) Amy J

To: Paul Engel who wrote (83464)	6/15/1999 5:35:00 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: MS TV -- but whose chips will they use? * Hardware manufacturers. General Instrument Corp., Scientific-Atlanta, Thomson Multimedia, StellarOne, Pace Micro Technology plc, Vestel USA Inc., Philips Electronics, Sagem, Siemens, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Sharp Corp., Sony Electronics Inc. (for WebTV set-top boxes), Fujitsu Ltd., Tatung Co., The Acer Group, Trigem Computer Inc. and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. ===================== Paul, Is Intel making sure they capture the chip design-wins with these hardware manufacturers? Amy J PS Trigem is E-machines, which carries Intel chip... but sort of wonder if the other manufacturers will carry the Intel chip