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To: Christopher Jack who wrote (48821)	3/18/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

BellSouth has always used Divicom equipment and Zenith/C-Cube, or Pace/C-Cube boxes. A new Satellite Service...... multichannel.com Daily Update for March 17, 2000: BellSouth Eyes Satellite Service Atlanta -- BellSouth Corp. Friday would not confirm plans reported in Business Week that it would launch a satellite-television service Wednesday (March 22). "We have always said our video plans were a mosaic approach" that includes wireless and landline cable, and that could include a satellite option in the future, a BellSouth spokesman said last Thursday. One telecommunications insider said BellSouth was expected to brief analysts about its satellite plans early this week. Business Week reported that BellSouth would lease transponders on a Loral Space & Communications Ltd. satellite. Loral did not return calls. Other regional telephone companies have partnered with DirecTV Inc. to co-market direct-broadcast satellite service. - 3/17/00

To: Christopher Jack who wrote (48821)	3/19/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

C-Cube partner, Western Digital November 18, 1999 shareholder meeting................... westerndigital.com Also in the long term we aim to take advantage of Western Digital?s abilities as we cultivate our investments in new businesses. Home entertainment storage will be a massive market for WD?s abilities. The digital video recorder, for example, is forecast to be the biggest-selling consumer electronic appliance ever, bigger than the VCR. We?re one of three major hard drive producers working to capture share of this business and it appears to be big enough for all of us. We have drive products in qualification with the major DVR and set top box producers and this quarter we will ship our first WD Performer drives to these new customers. Also last month, WD?s A/V business announced StreamWeaver TM technology. It?s an interface command set specifically for use in controlling multiple streams of data such as when you simultaneously record and play back audio or video signals. It will be used in digital video recorders, set-top boxes, home servers, audio/video juke boxes, televisions and other consumer products. In addition, as you know we have a strategic relationship with Sony under which we?re jointly developing hard drives for consumer entertainment applications. westerndigital.com Irvine, Calif. ? Sept. 21, 1999 ? C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq: CUBE) and Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) today announced the industry?s first Digital Video Recorder (DVR) reference platform. The new C-Cube/Western Digital DVR platform allows consumer electronics manufacturers to rapidly develop MPEG-2 hard drive-based DVR products with the ability to timeshift, pause, rewind and replay live television broadcasts. The platform is the first visible example of a newly-established partnership between C-Cube and Western Digital. The companies are working together to speed time-to-market of DVR products. In addition to this first platform, C-Cube and Western Digital plan to leverage future advances in C-Cube MPEG-2 silicon and Western Digital hard drives to offer platforms for next-generation products.................