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To: DiViT who wrote (48354)	1/20/2000 2:25:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I don't know, I think Cube could be a major player next few years in the DVD/HDTV/Network area. Plus we get HLIT, which is a major player in the internet. So I bought some here. If it goes down, heck, I made a ton on the run up from 30 to 66, so I'm not complaining. I just wish I had held on.

To: DiViT who wrote (48354)	1/20/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

(I hear ya!) HK: Island gets interactive TV By Ho Swee Lin in Hong Kong ft.com Cable & Wireless HKT, Hong Kong's dominant telecoms company, and Rupert Murdoch's Star TV are to launch their new interactive TV and broadband internet services in Hong Kong later this year. The service will vie with that planned by Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), a Hong Kong-based satellite-cable broadband internet company, to be the first off the ground. PCCW, run by Hong Kong property tycoon Li Ka-shing's younger son Richard Li, also plans to roll out its service in the next six months. The new company, yet to be named, will apply next month for a licence to run the planned interactive-internet network. The service is expected to come into operation three months after it has received a licence, said Linus Cheung, chief executive at C&W HKT. Plans are also underway for listings in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq in the US to raise funds for expansion, said Mr Cheung.

To: DiViT who wrote (48354)	1/20/2000 2:37:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

NEC Starts Selling Optical Video Disc that Can Record on Both Sides nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com January 20, 2000 (TOKYO) -- NEC Corp. has started selling a new optical disc, the MVDISC-10A, which can record on both sides. It is an improved version of the currently available MVDISC and is intended for use with the company's MV-10000 optical disc video recorder (commonly known as the GigaStation). GigaStation has only been able to store data on one side, giving them a capacity of 5.2GB, but the new double-sided discs can hold double the normal level -- up to 10.4GB. What this means is that the amount of S-VHS-quality video data that the discs can be used to record or play back has been increased to four hours. If a lower standard of picture quality is acceptable, the new discs can be used to store up to eight hours of video footage. The new discs are priced at 5,400 yen. In order to enable the discs to hold data on both sides, a manufacturing method is used in which, in effect, two 5.2GB discs are stuck together back to back. In order to use both sides of a disc, the user needs to manually eject it, turn it over and reinsert it into the player/recorder, so any users expecting to be able to record totally seamlessly at a time should take notice. Related story: NEC to Debut Video Recorders with Phase-Change Optical Discs (Nikkei Electronics)