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To: DiViT who wrote (46019)	10/12/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Acorn's first box used an LSI MPEG-2 decorder. I think they tried Odeum...................... techweb.com The set-top-box design that Acorn will use as the basis of the first prototype has been licensed to such companies as Mitsubishi Electric Corp., NetProducts Ltd. and Thomson Multimedia S.A. for use as Internet TV receivers. It uses the 32-bit 7500FE microprocessor from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM; Cambridge, England). Acorn has added hardware MPEG-2 decompression by using an LSI Logic Corp. chip that provides images at 30 frames per second over a full NTSC or PAL format TV display. The box also offers a choice of networking interfaces, such as 25-Mbit/s asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and 10-Mbit/s Ethernet, a built-in Internet browser and Java, Shockwave and Real Audio support.