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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (100844)	3/14/2000 1:40:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Respond to of 186894

re: "And the kids get kicked off the game (with much complaining)" That's funny at my house, I've been booted off my PC by my 5 year old. I tell you my son has learned so much in 3 months of PC usage it is scary. I would never have thought he could sit still for so long and concentrate so hard, it is fantastic. jim

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (100844)	3/14/2000 1:54:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 186894

If both TV and Web are delivered via cable using TCP/IP, you might not need ANY tuners. JMHO.

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (100844)	3/14/2000 2:28:00 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Gerald, RE: TV/PC I realize there are technology problems that need to be overcome. Ten years ago there was only www.nothing, look where we are now. To think that the Internet won't eventually invade the TV is naive, they are talking about toasters and refrigerators with web access! As far as the costs, the PC on my desk, 10 years ago, would have cost $millions. The 19" monitor I'm looking at at the moment cost around $900 1 1/2 year ago, today half that. You take all the factories that are producing TV's and PC's, all the factories that are producing components, all the folks that work for those companies, and you reduce that overhead almost by 1/2 by combining the two products. All the expensive store shelf space, all the promotional budgets, on and on. Sure, if you take a photograph of the world as it stands today, you can find a thousand reasons why it would be difficult to combine a TV and a PC, and probably a thousand reason why you wouldn't want to. But if you look at the Internet as a brand new, immature media, that has years until it reaches it's mature stages, then you have to guess that TV's and PC's as we know them now will change. John