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To: Nimbus who wrote (9970)	7/2/1999 7:53:00 AM
From: Starowl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

tmrent: Many thanks for the article. I'm still learning about this industry but found the disagreement over VOD's prospects stimulating. For others, here's what I found most interesting: "What about video on demand? Is it going to be widely deployed? Bilotti: Yes. They do it, it works, and everybody two years from now says, gee, that was the killer app. I have more skepticism that they can get telephone right as an industry than that they can get VOD. Tinker: I thought At Home couldn't hit a number. Now operators deliver video on demand next year? VOD is going to be a killer app, but not for a long, long, long time. We're still talking three, four, five years. The studios are going to focus on DVD first. They can resell the whole library. It's a far more exciting product for them in the near-term. VOD will be at a disadvantage because Blockbuster will get the movies first. Bilotti: I'll say there's a million homes with VOD by the end of next year." Starowl