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To: zoe who wrote (299)	9/22/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: PeterBurgess	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 431

September 21, 1999: NTL Picks Diva for VOD London -- U.K. cable operator NTL Inc. will begin commercial deployment of video-on-demand next year using Diva Systems Corp.?s platform. NTL -- the biggest MSO in the United Kingdom, with about 2.8 million customers -- announced plans to deliver VOD service over its digital set-top boxes, replacing its current near-VOD service. Diva will provide system elements to include video servers, content-management centers, billing interfaces, system software and optical networks. NTL has been testing VOD since earlier this year, and it hopes to begin deploying the service commercially by mid-2000. The company, which also tested a service developed by Elmsdale Media, said it would name a second VOD-technology supplier "in due course." "NTL?s cable will deliver true VOD at around 4 megabits [per second], and it is the only platform capable of achieving a quality our U.K. competitors can only dream about," NTL Media and Marketing Services group managing director Steven Wagner said in a news release. Diva?s deal -- contingent on hitting technical and commercial milestones -- follows its first major U.S. MSO agreement, announced last week with MediaOne Group Inc. Other British MSOs also have explored VOD, with Telewest Communications plc testing a system using technology from nCUBE and SeaChange International Inc. - 9/21/99 multichannel.com

To: zoe who wrote (299)	9/23/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 431

This good, bad, indifferent for SEAC? DULUTH, Ga., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wegener Corporation (Nasdaq: WGNR -news) announced it has received an order exceeding $6 million from FOX Digital, a unit of FOX Television. The order onsists of UNITY5000 IRD's (Integrated Receiver Decoders) plus COMPEL Network Control. The UNITY5000 will allow for the delivery of high quality standard definition and high definition digital video feeds from the FOX Network to its affiliates. These units will replace the Wegener analog system that has been in use since 1993. 'The time has come for a complete system-wide transition to digital,' said Richard M. Friedel, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations for FOX Digital. 'Wegener's COMPEL Network ControlSystem remains a key factor that keeps us coming back. Our business depends on it.'