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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (10826)	11/21/1999 10:30:00 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

FranQ. Yahoo TV site is neat--Interactive unlike my local TV Guide on screen and not so many Advertisements. So why can't the site return selected time & date info to my converged TV/Internet Computer? JohnG

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (10826)	11/21/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Hi UncleFrank > Someone is providing this service for Yahoo, and I'm hoping NY Stew will be able to verify that it is based on gmst ipr < Yes, it's a cool service. It is also a very commodity like service (although Yahoo executes tremendously well). Yahoo gets it from Gist Communications, which in turn gets the stuff from Tribune Media. I don't know where Tribune gets it from. Probably a from a syndicate. Does GMST have a lock on using the data to program the TV-Internet ? GMST relies on a Channel/Date/Time/Length encoding format that it invented. (The concept was actually patented in early 80s, replete with barcode readers to scan cooking programs from food packages to microwaves. Too early, I suppose). I imagine there are alternative methods to encode this information. E.g., XML. I can't really imagine my Mom sitting there punching in an XML document into the VCR, but it is very well suited for exchanging documents (such as a program information) between machines. Esp., machines running on very different types of hardware and software. FWIW, XML will also somewhat lower the cost of switching vendors. -Dinesh