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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (42399)	12/9/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: BRANDYBGOOD	Respond to of 108040

2, Agreed, I still have some of my shares of RNWK from a year and a 1/2 ago at 25! Why do you think MSFT is so hot and heavy to get into streaming video and audio. Bill gates and co. are many things but stupid isn't one of them. To deliver quality they need ISLD. A $200 target is conservative. As always in these public places...JMO! :0) But I think it's a good one! Especially since it mirrors yours. PERL at 31 5/8 hahahahahahahahahah! Shorts shot! :0)

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (42399)	12/9/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108040

"Big Bandwidth Blues Digital Island's 58-point leap makes me a moron." ....not me , it's the writer of the article----> upside.com Back when tech's warrior kings first bellowed the bandwidth rallying cry, Digital Island popped up on the war field. A tiny company located in Hawaii, Digital Island promised a non-clogged separate Internet-type network. It would move data to and from big sites through its traffic-free hubs, located conveniently between the United States and Asia, for a fee. Your traffic headed to Europe? Let's bypass Mae West and Mae East, and head straight there. Simple concept. A no-brainer. But three years ago, in the three-years-ago mindset, there wasn't much new to the concept. All big companies had proprietary networks at the time. Your big-six type corporations built their superfast data and phone networks, maintaining open lines just for them. Financial entities hooked themselves up to data central through proprietary networks. Where Digital Island said "bandwidth," I saw "systems integrator." Shrug. But it wasn't companies exclusively that would send data over the network. The medium-growth business I pictured didn't happen. Instead, Web sites sent their products, their content over the Digital Island network. New media plus subscriber growth plus bigger content loads to push equals duh on me. Wednesday, Sun and Inktomi put their weight behind Digital Island, creating a three-way partnership for beefing up Internet delivery times. Inktomi brings its caching expertise, Sun chips in the servers and Digital Island moves the bits. Wall Street tacked on the 58 points itself, free of charge. Gratuities are appreciated. Which brings us to the moral of this story. Like Eurydice, when marching up the steep, bleak incline out of economic hell, don't look back. Hold on to Orpheus' hand when he plays a sweet song of unending growth, bandwidth deficits, connected devices yearning for a pipeline and Wall Street favor. Corporation's insatiable desire for e-commerce and a stake in the Internet world fueled Digital Island's upside. They will do the same for streaming media, broadband deployment, 24x7 connections in the home and all the other concepts that were harder to accept a year and a half ago, but are chugging up the growth hockey-stick today. Take hold of that security blanket. Suck your thumb if you must. But embrace the furious pace of change. Don't even blink when those research firms drag out dollar-estimates in the billions, user-numbers that seem mighty outlandish as you sit at your desk and watch your connection choke, or the choppy narrowband content scrape by. The time has come for the big-bandwidth ideas. There's no stopping it. :-))) 'cause it's going ... 2MAR$

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (42399)	12/10/1999 1:51:00 AM
From: Ellen	Respond to of 108040

I wonder when this company will ipo...?...:-) biz.yahoo.com Thursday December 9, 3:29 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release MeTV.com Demonstrates First Internet to PC/TV Movies on Demand System at Streaming Media Conference SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999--Hastening the convergence of the Web, PCs and television, MeTV.com (www.metv.com) introduced the first Internet direct to PC/TV movies-on-demand pay-per-view service at Streaming Media West. Waterford, CT, based MeTV.com is the first company to break the 4-inch PC video window and demonstrate a Web-based system that delivers broadcast quality, full-screen movies to PCs, and with a patent pending wireless transmitter/decoder process sends movies from the PC to any television set within 150 feet. MeTV.com's technology will allow the customer to control the system with a proprietary remote control so one will not have to leave the living room to use the service. MeTV.com streams full-length feature films in real-time at 375 to 700 kps, which allows consumers with broadband Internet access, DSL, cable modem or digital satellite, to select movies from its library for immediate pay-per-view enjoyment with TV quality. "MeTV.com offers what you want to watch, when you want to watch it,' said Martin French, senior vice president. "MeTV.com is all about making the technology transparent to the consumer so they can select and enjoy movies of their choice from the MeTV.com Web site. With out prior knowledge of the Internet. The customer experience will be very similar to traditional TV.' MeTV.com, which launched last June, has made significant process toward its projected consumer launch in June 2000. The MeTV.com demonstration Web site already features several dozen movies for free viewing, with more coming, an integrated 40,000 title movie database and merchandise mall. Recognition has come rapidly. MeTV.com has forged alliances with industry leaders who are pushing streaming media convergence. MeTV.com is among the charter members of the Microsoft Broadband Media Jumpstart Initiative, and employs the new Windows MediaPlayer MPEG4 protocol. The company, which has acquired its first 1,500 title film library, recently signed a 750 movie deal with encoding.com, and a Web hosting agreement with Intervu. "We are well funded and positioned to create a new video on demand market on the Internet,' said MeTV.com CEO Jeff Pescatello, whose company has opened a Los Angeles office to lead its content acquisition effort. "We have grown from three to 33 people in six months and now have the technical, marketing and management staff in place to support an aggressive title acquisition campaign beginning after the holidays.' MeTV.com is a revolutionary entertainment service delivering real time, on-demand, broadband, streamed movies via the Internet. The MeTV.com Web site blends Web technologies with traditional television. empowering consumers, including those with little or no computer experience, to access a diverse selection of movies, information and services, on-demand. Founded in 1988, MeTV's parent company, Group E Communications, is based in New London, CT, and maintains a Los Angeles office. Contact: Visibility Public Relations Len Stein 212/777-4350 lens@visibilitypr.com Related News Categories: computers, internet, networking, publishing, software, telecom