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To: Allegoria who wrote (968)	11/30/2000 6:00:50 AM
From: Allegoria	Respond to of 1045

Scientific-Atlanta Unveils New Explorer 8000 Set-Top for Personal Cable TV, Announces Time Warner Order New Advanced Explorer 8000 Set-top To Feature Dual Tuner Personal TV Platform With PVR, Tape 'N View, and Picture-in-Picture newsalert.com. ATLANTA, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering the leading edge features that cable operators need to increase revenues and that subscribers want for advanced personal TV applications, Scientific-Atlanta today unveiled its new advanced Explorer(R) 8000 set-top. The company also announced that Time Warner Cable has signed purchase orders, subject to certain conditions, for the Explorer 8000 set-top. The commitment is expected to satisfy most of the cable operator's forecasted requirements for calendar years 2001 and 2002 for this type of digital set-top. "Time Warner Cable has worked very closely with Scientific-Atlanta in the development of the new Explorer 8000 set-top, which will offer a new highly integrated and very promising personal TV solution," says Mike Hayashi, vice president, advanced engineering, Time Warner Cable. "We look forward to adding the exciting, personalized TV services to our VOD offerings already aboard the Scientific-Atlanta network platform, which are redefining the way our subscribers watch and use their televisions." The Explorer 8000 set-top will operate on the same Scientific-Atlanta network platform that supports all Explorer models, while providing advanced features that include a hard disk drive, two tuners, MPEG encoding, a high-speed RISC processor, and future-proof functionality for multiple applications. "The Explorer 8000 set-top will deliver powerful PVR capabilities together with a suite of bundled interactive TV applications, which eliminates the need for two boxes and offers cable operators an unmatched competitive edge to drive new revenues and subscriber satisfaction," says Michael P. Harney, Scientific-Atlanta's corporate vice president and general manager of Subscriber Networks. Like every Scientific-Atlanta Explorer set-top shipped, including the Explorer 2100, Explorer 3100, and Explorer 6000 models, the Explorer 8000 platform will offer access to a wide range of multiple interactive TV applications on a single set-top without the need for network upgrades. In addition to Web browsing, email, t-commerce, and video on demand (VOD), the Explorer 8000 model also delivers personal TV capabilities that allow the cable subscriber to pause, rewind, fast forward, record, and re-play live analog and digital TV programs. With two tuners, the Explorer 8000 set-top will enable the simultaneous viewing and recording of two channels of programming and support HDTV via memory options. The Explorer 8000 set-top, which is expected to begin shipping during the summer of 2001, will feature a quiet 40 gigabyte hard drive that can hold more than 40 hours of video content and a dual-stream MPEG encoder and multiple- stream MPEG decoder that allow the simultaneous recording and viewing of video streams. The advanced set-top will also provide extensive input/output capabilities, including a convenient front access USB port and available dual 1394 ports that support HDTV and connections to high-speed peripherals. The second QAM tuner in the Explorer 8000 set-top can also support DOCSIS with a software upgrade.