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To: DenverTechie who wrote (6903)	5/16/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: MSO Priority- HDTV or Cable Telephony? DenverTechie- Frank's HFW comments got me to thinking about the MSO bandwidth situation once again. As you may have noticed upstream, I was doing some tests using the url's posted. With both my Time Warner Roadrunner and GTE Worldwind cable modem services, I was always in the meager .5 Mbps category. Which brings me to my next set of questions. I've been pondering whether cable telephony or HDTV will be the next biggest thing to hit the MSOs in terms of demand. Both are very complicated I know. Rarely do I hear much about HDTV in contrast to what I hear about cable telephony. What are your general thoughts about these two cutting edge technologies....Is HDTV on the back burner because voice is the current top priority? Is there really enough bandwidth available, even with a Lightwire architecture, to deploy cable voice/HDTV quality video/broadband data? Thanks. -MikeM(From Florida)