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To: Stoctrash who wrote (42668)	7/8/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Black-Scholes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Yeah but with ESST, one knows your buying a piece of $#%&. Talk about a here today gone tomorrow company with a "hit and run" mentality toward their shareholders.

To: Stoctrash who wrote (42668)	7/8/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

ExpressVu, Divicom/EchoStar customer........................ news.digitalbroadcasting.com INDUSTRY NEWS 06/30/1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bell ExpressVu Brings 18-Inch Dish to Canada Bell ExpressVu, (Toronto) Canada's largest direct-to-home satellite television company, will begin offering the country's first 18-in satellite dish starting July 1. Other new services include an expanded 200 channel line up starting this fall along with DirecPC, the first Canadian Internet service via satellite starting in November. The company is also targeting subscribers of Star Choice, Gray Market and C-Band customers in Canada with a free offer to switch to Bell ExpressVu, in exchange for their current set - top box. The 18-in dishes -- which were introduced by DirecTV (El Segundo, CA) in the U.S. in 1994 and are only available in the states and selected parts of Europe and Japan -- are largely responsible for the explosive success of DBS and DTH in the U.S. DirecTV currently has about five million subscribers using the 18-in dishes, (the company acquired PrimeStar in April, which uses slightly larger satellite dishes), while EchoStar (Littleton, CO) has almost 2.4 million subscribers using the 18-in dishes. Almost 11.5 million consumers subscribe to satellite television in the U.S, according to SkyReport. BellExpress Vu has 26 transponders reaching all parts of Canada on NIMIQ, Canada's only satellite dedicated to offering Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS). The bird was launched by Telesat Canada in May. Launched in September 1997, Bell ExpressVu currently has 230,000 subscribers, making it the sixth largest broadcast distributor in Canada, and is adding 10,000 to 20,000 new customers every month. By 2002, the company expects to reach over one million subscribers.

To: Stoctrash who wrote (42668)	7/8/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Fred, you'd like to try this at the track. 162 Mbps under the hood......................... news.digitalbroadcasting.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL NEWS 06/18/1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philips Produces World's Fastest MPEG-2 Chipset A recent study from Insight Research indicates that global sales of devices that use the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard will reach $23.9 billion in 1999 and top $125 billion in 2003. With MPEG-2 quickly becoming the world's de facto compression standard for digital video transmission, Amsterdam-based Philips Electronics' subsidiary, Philips Semiconductor, has developed what it says is the world's fastest MPEG-2 chipset for compressed audio, video, and data streams for set-tops. More than twice as fast as its predecessor, the SAA7214, the SAA7219 is designed for the consumer digital receiver market and will be incorporated into Philips' STB5860 set-top box. The chipset is also the first device to deliver a watch-and-record feature, enabling OEMs to build digital receivers that process two channels on the same multiplex stream using a single MPEG transport chip. It enables end users to watch one digital channel while simultaneously recording another through the IEEE1394 interface. Philips achieved this performance enhancement through an increased cache size (4 K/8 K), double CPU speed (81 MHz) and a 32-bit architecture achieving 162 Mbps peak SDRAM transfer rate. Versions of the SAA 7215 support various broadcast standards, including a full multistandard device for PAL, NTSC and Secam, with or without Macrovision copy protection.