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To: ed who wrote (35938)	1/3/2000 12:07:00 AM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"New product will soon make interactive TV programming practical and affordable" by Mike Langberg Knight Ridder Newspapers It's a formula that hasn't been working too well for NASA lately, with Mars probes refusing to phone home. But the computer and consumer electronics industries, I'm pleased to report, are staying the course. The latest dramatic evidence comes in a category that's hardly six months old: personal video recorders (PVR), devices that are much like VCRs but use hard drives instead of videotape to store television programs. EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network direct satellite service, and Microsoft, which owns the WebTV online service, are about to unleash a jaw-dropping product called the DishPlayer 500, priced at $299... seattletimes.com