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To: wlheatmoon who wrote (70)	7/23/1999 8:33:00 AM
From: Ron M	Respond to of 13582

Qualcomm and the movies The link americasnetwork.com. A clip from the article A principal objection to satellite distribution is the "gatekeeper" argument. "We don't want someone like Qualcomm involved as a middleman," insists Barlow. "That's parasitic." Others agreed (off the record). But Ron Maehl, president of Loral's CyberStar division, impatiently dismisses all such counterarguments. "There are companies out there claiming they'll be delivering movies over the Internet. It's so ridiculous. Information theory tells us the limits of video compression, and 56K connections are never going to be remotely adequate. Qualcomm is right. You need several tens of megabits of throughput. You're not going to get that with terrestrial networks based on NT servers. And that's ignoring the problem of doing multicasting over IP. Satellite is clearly the only way to go at present.