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To: Allegoria who wrote (3573)	8/10/2000 8:33:09 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6516

"We'll go with no guides at all before we'll do that." Okay. Let's play that imaginary game of the cable folks not having any guides. Their customers can buy set-top boxes at Circuit City with a guide inside them. And they can buy their televisions with a guide inside them. Even if cable companies are ultimately allowed to strip the guide signal, once two-way paging is operative next year the end users will have their electonic guide with or without the cable company's help. And if they do it without the cable company's help, the cable company will have no revenue generated by the guide. Do you think Henry is ready to call that guy's bluff? You betcha. In the end, the driving factor that will affect guide usage will be the number of channels. With the current quantity of television channels, the guides are a convenience, not a necessity. When there are roughly 250 to 300 channels I think they will become a necessity. It's not as if the cable companies will have permanent control of whether or not I can use an electronic guide. --Mike Buckley

To: Allegoria who wrote (3573)	8/10/2000 5:43:53 PM
From: Andy B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6516

Eric: Does anyone have any information about the SFA judgment? Amounts? References? I am unable to find a thing… The reference in the article to an SFA judgement was for an older case made back in 1996: starsight.com STARSIGHT TELECAST FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR ARBITRATION AWARD AND INJUNCTION AGAINST SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA CONFIRMED FREMONT, CALIF. -- StarSight Telecast, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGHT), announced today that Judge William H. Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California confirmed an American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration panel award of $15 million against Scientific-Atlanta for unlawful use of StarSight Telecast's inventions, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and unfair trade practices. The court also confirmed the panel's injunction prohibiting Scientific-Atlanta for a period of three years from shipping to third parties any consumer product incorporating an interactive program guide, excepting orders already committed to in writing as of July 23, 1996. The arbitration arose from a 1992 agreement pursuant to which Scientific-Atlanta had agreed to develop a StarSightâ interactive guide for its advanced analog cable converter box called the 8600X. The panel awarded StarSight Telecast $10 million in punitive damages based on its findings that Scientific-Atlanta intentionally withheld its performance under its agreement with StarSight Telecast for the ulterior purpose of using in the development of its own product, the "Native Guide." The panel further found that Scientific-Atlanta attempted to use its own breach of contract to force StarSight Telecast to grant it a license it desired. Scientific-Atlanta had filed a cross-motion in the District Court seeking to vacate the panel's punitive damage award, arguing that the arbitrators lacked the authority to make such an award. The District Court denied Scientific-Atlanta's motion. StarSight Telecast, Inc. is a publicly held company backed by strategic partners Viacom Inc., THOMSON multimedia S.A., Cox Communications, Inc., Tribune Company, Providence Journal Company and Time Warner, Inc. The company's stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol SGHT. The StarSight Telecast web site is located at starsight.com.