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To: Ben Wu who wrote (13500)	6/26/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Yeagher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

OT: Ben, in response to your 3rd point; "HDTV-PC board?", here is what maximumpc.com posted several months ago. Note the names of the players involved: "TeraLogic wowed the crowd at WinHEC's Trade Show with a glimpse into the next broadcasting technology dubbed HDTV or High Definition Television. Both geeks and football fans gathered to see this technology in action although for very different reasons. The football fans (and forklift operators for the WinHEC show itself we were told) were amazed by the amount of detail the technology delivers, commenting on the drops of sweat they could see dripping from the center's helmet. Geeks were busy checking out TeraLogic's reference design card using their Janus DTVPC decoder chip. And it's not just the promise of high-resolution TV that got everyone's blood going. The price of HDTV cards, about $300, means PC users will probably see the technology long before most consumers lay out $5,000 for an HDTV set. The TeraLogic card itself is burly and offers not only digital HDTV reception, but also legacy NTSC broadcast and cable reception so you can still pick up non-HDTV broadcasts along with full DVDplayback. But the goodness doesn't stop there. TeraLogic's Janus TL850 decoder chip takes it all a step further by offering line doubling technology and an advanced video scaler that converts native NTSC, the transmission format native to U.S. televisions, and DVD video-streams to HD video formats! This means you'll see over one million pixels per frame instead of the 150,000 that current televisions display when watching through a PC monitor. The card also has a S/PDIF connector for true 5.1 channel Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio. Currently, HDTV sets are priced in the $5,000-$10,000 range, putting them out of the reach of most consumers. But a Janus-based HDTV card from nVidia or S3, both of whom were showing these boards in their booth, is said to be priced below $300. The Janus boards being shown were connected to the latest TNT2 and Savage S4 boards via the feature connector although we were told that HDTV, NTSC and DVD overlays could be sent to any video card via the feature port or the PCI bus. Microsoft also had a display showing a small console box with the card hooked up to a large monitor showing that a complete solution offering HDTV and large monitor with DVD support was still cheaper than an HDTV set. "

To: Ben Wu who wrote (13500)	6/27/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

6) and UoW grads are just like any other tech grad - in high demand. So save it please. Plus it's not where you get your degree, it's what you do with it that counts. Hey, I resemble that accusation! <g> All kidding aside, I think a university education as a whole is highly over-rated. I know of people who had know grasp of the concepts and yet managed to graduate with very decent marks because they practiced a lot. And I know of those who did not make it to the university or dropped out because they were busy with concept fit for advanced graduate programs. Having said that, I've had close experience with engineering programs in a number of universities and I can tell you that there is a substantial difference between engineering in university of Waterloo and anywhere else that I've seen. ST