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To: Victor Cassella who wrote (2246)	12/29/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: Bruce Cullen	Respond to of 2393

Tracy Swedlow's I N T E R A C T I V E T V T O D A Y An Email Publication December 29, 1999 Issue 2.58 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Ads: Peach Networks & Veon (2) Some Thoughts at the End of the Year We are grateful for all the good wishes and sponsorship sent in over the last year. It was a great year of growth for InteractiveTV Today (ITVT) as we launched the publication, Web site, and special services into full-gear. We look forward to providing you with more information products (e.g. industry and technology news, its trends, insider views, emerging technologies, conference reviews, as well as information on content and interface developments) in the months to come. Look for additional features, for example, on the Web site and as well as the First Annual ITVT Awards of Achievement. Overall, everybody associated with InteractiveTV Today wish subscribers around the world a very happy new year/century/millenium. Of course, ITVT is very aware that this date is a completely arbitrary marker of time and respect the fact that some cultures pay no heed to it. We truly believe that diversity makes for a stronger and more dynamic ITV/broadband industry and society. INDUSTRY Top ITV Trends and Important Influences in 1999 Technologies, Companies, and Trends to Watch in 2000 TECHNOLOGY New Set-top from Granite and NetTV with Bays for Peripherals CONTENT Canadian TV Channel Develops Screen Like Web Page Synchronized TV: Companies Embracing More Projects, But Will It Last? ABC & Go.com "Enhancing" Broadcast of Sugar Bowl New Line Cinema and HyperTV "Enhancing" Austin Powers MORE JOBS Veon COMMENT Peter Davey - Macquarie Bank, Australia OTHER HEADLINES WHAT's ON THE WEB SITE EVENTS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=ad:JobListing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Peach Networks Manager, Content Business Development (Boston, MA) Peach Networks provides cutting-edge, cost-effective interactive television technology. The Access Channel system delivers a whole new source of high-revenue generating programming content to Cable Television operators. In the position above, you would be expected to plan, specify and establish the content packages to be offered; establish relationships with strategic suppliers of software applications; and establish licensing arrangements. BSCS or BA in Communications, Journalism or equivalent required. Experience in marketing/new business development and background in the applications software industry preferred. Please email resume and cover letter to: usjobs@peach-networks.com or fax to 207-878-9596. Reference: ITVT Listing. Candidates invited for interviews will be required to supply three references and proof of citizenship. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=ad:JobListing=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I N D U S T R Y Top ITV Trends and Important Influences in 1999 Open Access/AT&T/FCC/ISP's Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, IPO's, personnel shakeups Digital Video Recorders (TiVo, ReplayTV, etc.) Real deployments: Digital set-tops, Wink, Open...., DISHPlayer, China, Europe New set-top boxes as entertainment appliance Technologies: ATVEF, DVB-MHP, OpenCable Growth of broadband/cable modem industry to home user New enhanced content on WebTV platform and PBS experiments Emergence of the platform (Liberate, MicrosoftTV, OpenTV, PowerTV) Interactive banking, advertising, ecommerce New companies on the scene building services and tools Launch of digital signal More jobs available Technologies, Companies, and Trends to Watch in 2000 Open Access/AT&T/FCC/ISP's Further deployment of digital TV signal and products ATVEF SIG, W3C, OpenCable New ITV broadcast channels: Documentary Channel, Museum World Email Communities and back end communications technologies Digital Video Recording and video-on-demand technology TiVo - source code released to Linux community Technologies: JavaTV, Bluetooth, Datacasting, Multi-casting Companies: Gemstar-TV Guide, NDS, Excite@Home, AOL, AT&T, Veon, Microsoft, Liberate, CommerceTV, ACTV, AccelerateTV, Sun Microsystems, SeaChange, OpenTV, EchoStar Set-top services for the smart home Interactive video/film over broadband networks A lot more =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=ad:Event =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Veon's Interactive Broadband Video Summit New York: January 11, 2000 Los Angeles: January 20, 2000 Discover the powerful potential of linking video content and commerce Turn your video assets into revenue assets Develop your own ideas for groundbreaking broadband programming Cost to Attend: FREE Register today at veon.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=ad:Event =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= T E C H N O L O G Y New Set-top from Granite and NetTV with Bays for Peripherals A new set-top (being built to ride the wave of interest in gateway home entertainment all-in-one boxes) from NetTV will allow the customer to add new components such as a cable modem, hard drive, DVD drive, and other peripherals easily. The box will come with 3 available open bays - 2 in the back and one in the front with the back bays for a cable modem or hard drive while the front bay will accept a video tape or a DVD drive. Granite Microsystems will be responsible for this "Device Bay" technology supporting USB and IEEE 1394 standard high speed connections. The boxes will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 6-9. *C O N T E N T Canadian TV Channel Develops Screen Like Web Page "The New York Times" on Monday covered a story about a television channel in Canada called Cable Pulse 24, or CP24, a subsidiary of Chum Limited, presenting their regular broadcast screen after an interactive fashion - or as the NY Times says, "like a Web page". What's displayed here is a screen much like enhanced TV broadcasts in which the video is reduced to the upper left while the rest of the screen features popular info graphics such as weather, traffic, and stock reports during broadcasts. Stephen Hurlbut, the station's vice president and general manager, was quoted as saying. "It's designed for people who have busy lives. They turn it on and get their 15-minute hit and they go off to work. This is utility TV for people in this city." Mark Rubinstein, senior vice president at Chum Television Channels, saw it as an opportunity to generate revenue. "We are hoping we can turn this into a model of how television and the Web can be packaged and sold. Our expectation is that new media and business opportunities will outstrip the traditional revenue channel." Enhanced TV news producers - take note. Synchronized TV: Companies Embracing More Projects, But Will It Last? ABC & Go.com "Enhancing" Broadcast of Sugar Bowl New Line Cinema and HyperTV "Enhancing" Austin Powers ABC and Go.com in a combined effort have been enhancing Sunday Night and Monday Night football games since September. On January 4th, ABC/Go.com will "enhance" their broadcast of the Nokia Sugar Bowl football game while - as reported last November in this publication - New Line Cinema will offer ACTV's Hyper TV application during pay-per-view broadcasts of "Austin Power's: The Spy Who Shagged Me" from January 1 and February 29, 2000. Synchronized TV broadcasts with Internet content programming is gaining corporate Interest, clearly. While not interactiveTV in the strictest sense, this sort of programming promotion, is being billed as "Enhanced TV". Although purely marketing tactics, the existence of this sort of programming certainly brings the concept of interactive TV closer to the mainstream. Sugar Bowl viewers will actually be able to play games against other Viewers only over their Internet connection with their PC, view real-time statistics on the game, participate in interactive polls and graphical charts. chat with others, buy things and "more" says the network. ABC /Go.com plans to "enhance" Super Bowl XXXIV on January 30th as well. Wouldn't it be great if ABC/Go.com developed these applications for real-time enhanced TV-compliant platforms? Synchronization, while it is a growing trend, can only thrive and grow long term, in the opinion of ITVT, in a combined broadband digital TV environment which is not readily available yet. =============== Getting more interesting! As the sports market heats up I expect QSTI to benefit to some degree. Bruce Cullen Sherwood Coasts Group geocities.com

To: Victor Cassella who wrote (2246)	12/29/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Bruce Cullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2393

THE BIG RED HOT SECTOR! Convergence, have you experienced it? Interactive television, a new frontier in a market of new public offerings. Recent momentum in these high flying companies as of late is proving that many may be looking towards the future with high expectations. With many recent IPO's and surely more in the works you have to wonder what is propelling these new media ironsides. The sector that is now emerging as convergence is on a ride like the freedom trail, only seven months ago companies like ACTV, Inc (Nasdaq:IATV), Worldgate Comms (Nasdaq:WGAT), Tivo Inc (Nasdaq:TIVO) were either rarely spoken about or existing at all. (TIVO), (WGAT), Open TV (Nasdaq:OPTV), and a few others have recently been brought to market, these IPO's, also known as initial public offerings came in with a bang and are currently gaining stride as they continue their upward momentum. These recent momentous patterns have many scratching their heads, is this the continuation of the "net stocks" or is this a brave new medium? At the Western Cable Show in Anaheim California, Dec 14-17, 1999 ACTV, Inc. was busy giving a presentation on their new HyperTV network which includes an up and coming Austin Powers event. This Austin Powers movie is most well known for it's recent box-office success, THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME "had the most successful opening weekend in history for a comedy, and has proven to be a marketing phenomenon, generating over $205 million at the box office". By now if you are still scratching your head ACTV also hyperactively presented Cyberbond, the 15 Days of 007' movie festival on Saturday, Nov 27, 1999. To top it off TBS Superstation hosted ACTV's new groundbreaking television medium. HyperTV offered compelling interactive Web content nationally that would be automatically delivered and synchronized to intertwine with each and every Bond film as they aired on the TBS Superstation. Imagine for a moment, Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune brought to your homes with a new twist, this time around you are able to interact with other players during the same aired event. It has been known for some time, Scientific Atlanta and General Instruments (General Instruments recently was bought out by Motorola) has been making cable boxes that are interactive. ACTV and others have made their technology available already inside these new devices or gadgets, whatever you prefer to call these new media lunchboxes. Enjoy a relaxing end of day sports event, aim your remote control at your cable box, watch Major League Baseball and have each pitch show on your screen in three dimensions. The pitcher throws the ball strike. was it a strike, did the umpire call it right, click that remote! Questec.com Inc. (Name changed today per their shareholders meeting) has the ability using Silicon Graphics to present live MLB stats at a touch of a button, all you want to know. If you prefer the speed of the pitch and it's trajectory well Questec has it covered, again using it's technology to replay each and every throw. Interested in Questec's new technology visit their newly released site, www.ereplays.com (October 13, 1999 QuesTec Announces eReplays.com). " www.eReplays.com " is a business-to-business technology content enabler that will revolutionize the way leagues, teams, internet and interactive television providers choose to entertain, inform and educate their sports fans. www.eReplays.com captures, transmits and reconstructs live action during sporting events and offers comprehensive, unique and informative content that complements existing information offerings as well as live network television coverage. Questec.com Inc. eReplays Quote "eReplays(TM) are created through proprietary video- and computer-based tracking systems designed, developed and provided by QuesTec and its partners. These systems instantly analyze the live game and convert that action into real-time filtered and encrypted digital streams. This digital information is then delivered to the sports information provider over the Internet by QuesTec's eSports(TM) technology. The digital information is used for the re-creation of live game action on home computers and interactive television set-top boxes. eReplays are available and displayed via the Internet seconds after live play". Many folks these days have little time to catch up with recent developments, it's hard enough keeping up with your own computer and it's in your living room next to your TV. Amazingly it's been reported by companies like Jupiter and Gartner Group, well-respected research companies that almost 45% of computer users are watching television at the same time their hands are clicking away on their mice. I remember recently writing a segment on Pizza Hut and the endless possibilities of your cable box remembering where you live. With a click of the mouse (IATV) ACTV, Inc could have a pizza at your doorstep. Another avenue, gather investment dollars in the devices that make it all possible, Spyglass Inc., (Nasdaq: SPYG) has shown promise to tie together the internet and most handheld devices on a global scale, remember folks if you have a service for hire on the net the entire globe is your potential profit margin. Shares of Spyglass soared in the beginning of November, from ten dollars per share to over thirty in less than two weeks or three hundred percent, IATV shares have seen a skyrocketing but well deserved ride from two dollars per share back in January 1999 to over thirty-six dollars per share as of last week, more than two thousand percent. This sector is Red-Hot! Looking at the recent Nasdaq rally one has to take the current technical explosions with stride, where do we go from here? Y2K, also known as the year 2000 is almost upon us, what can we expect? Let's take a look, first things first, for those who think they have the answers for you remember, it's never happened before thus know one has any idea what will take place, right? The technicals turned positive for (IATV) back near September 1st of 1999, the Moving average convergence divergence (AKA:MACD) presented a buy signal, from twelve dollars per share we have now followed this up with two more buy signals at fourteen and sixteen dollars per share. IATV presently has a relative strength of 99 from a 1-100 spread of strength. A relative strength of Ninety-nine out of one-hundred is a healthy number for shares of ACTV in any situation. I expect IATV shares to end the year at about forty-four to fifty per share depending on the Y2K unknown. o Technical chart on ACTV, Inc. (Nasdaq: IATV) The fundamentals here are strong, with a recent backing by four of the most widely followed and respected underwriters on Wallstreet, Credit Suisse First Boston, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney ACTV is organizing a road show expected to brighten the minds of many on wallstreet including most interested investors. Those watching this sector can ride the wires of the unexpected as one of the last years of the millennium approaches, many will take a few profits and the rest will invest for their future maybe expecting a company like ACTV, Inc to be the next Intel Inside. ACTV is in the Scientific-Atlanta and General Instruments ~DIGITAL~ cable boxes, can we expect them to also be all around our daily lives, I think so! ===================== Bruce Cullen Sherwood Coasts Group geocities.com