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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9438)	12/2/2000 8:48:59 AM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 12823

PS "I would guess the per minute charges of a home user would be greater than an easyEverything Cafe charges for a T1 connection." Whoops. I meant to say for a 'shared T1-like' connection. I should have hit our speed test sites, but unfortunately I forgot to. easyEverything did appear to be faster than my Time Warner cable modem(which isn't saying much).

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9438)	12/2/2000 9:25:14 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 12823

"...what the attraction is."> computer-less Internet. You don't need to carry a computer along to connect to the Internet! The Internet cafe is like the public phone booth. You didn't need to carry a telephone to communicate. The hardware were put along the way. To surf the Internet you need a computer an I/O device and a display. Now those guys in those pictures are doing with the Internet is the same we did when used the phone booth. Wireless data is computer-less Internet. That is why I think it has a bright future. My example: I am now in between contracts. I have still the Lap top Siemens handed over when I was in the project. Now I will give it back to the company. I need to keep up with the agents and offers for new contract, and do my usual internet thing. If I didn't have this computer I just walk a couple of blocks from here and log in and do my computer-less thing. PS: This Thread is very lucky to have elmat here to discover this for the participants <vbg>!!!!

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9438)	12/2/2000 9:58:50 PM
From: geoffrey Wren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Again on the marketing aspect, an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal on 11/30, page A4. "Studios Plan High-Speed Home Delivery of Films." Some excerpts: The Studios are moving ahead with such plans because they don’t want to be aced out of the increasingly crowded race to deliver entertainment on demand to people’s homes via digital pipelines to computers and television sets. As more consumers get high-speed Internet connection that can handle full-length films the market for such services is expected to explode. The executives said a "key motivating factor" for the studios in developing a service is to "avoid the errors of the music industry," whose slowness in responding to the threat posed by the Internet left room for services such as Napster Inc. to offer pirated music. Sony has already developed technology that allows customer to download a feature-length film and retain access to if for a set period of time. The Sony services takes less than an hour, on average, to download a full-length move through a high speed telephone or cable-modem Internet connection. ________ Now this has, I think, the possibility to be something big. The rest of the article is talking about the jockying for position among the studios, but they have no choice but to get with someone's program. Sony's program sounds feasible now. I remember it said that pornography paved the way for VCR success, and it could be a major factor at the beginning here too. More mainstream, an hour to download a movie, when you could be eating dinner, and you don't have to drive to Blockbuster, wait in line, and drive back. That's a good argument for the system, even for the popular movies you can find at Blockbuster. Another possibility, access to hard to find video, such as the four best episodes of "F" Troop, or PBS cooking shows, or an older movie not carried by your local VCR tape rental store. So the system could provide privacy, save time, and access to a wider selection of material. I wonder if it could be like TIVO, where you watch one show while you are downloading another. Could the backbone of the internet handle it if this got big? I guess we have to see how much the Sony machine costs, and whether that claim on the speed of the download is realistic. Any thoughts?