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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: art slott who wrote (4982)	6/16/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Mike Fredericks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

In our system, Worldgate would activate on channels which are "Worldgate enabled" and ACTV programs would operate on ACTV programming channels. Both would interoperate with our electronic program guide and be active on the same box, on different channels. Makes perfect sense to me. This also means that channels that are MSFT-enabled would use MSFT's client, and so on for any company that gets their client software into the set-top boxes. Means that everyone can have their software in the same box and that the differentiating factor will be which content providers sign up with which services. I forsee (and this is a WAG mind you) that NBC will very shortly announce that it will go with Microsoft for their interactive programming. (Given the MSNBC relationship already, this would not be a stretch). IATV should have FOX and all of the assorted cable channels that are under Liberty's domain. Remains to be seen who the other networks would choose, but it wouldn't shock me if other networks shied away from IATV because of the close relationship with FOX (don't want to help a competitor.) The big deal out there is who is Disney/ABC/ESPN going to go with? This is going to be a HUGE space, and IATV doesn't need to win every contract out there to be very profitable... there are going to be lots of contracts to go around. -Mike