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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (52889)	5/11/2001 10:54:33 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 77398

i suspect you'll be proven right.

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (52889)	5/12/2001 1:16:36 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77398

Typesetter to Theater Owner...come in, over or Convergence, what's that ? Nobody really needs a computer. Each medium becomes converged when available power and data processing capabilities have the power necessary to manipulate them freely. Each technology being absorbed has had many years to mature, each will be subsumed quickly. Anyone who can't see the end of TV broadcasting isn't watching closely. It isn't a matter of if at all, it is when. The process is just about complete with sound, the only thing lacking is the delivery. Downloading songs is still time consuming but internet radio works well. Rio's are becoming very popular you know. Working with video is still very clumsy. Extra dollars can build a desktop PC that will do it, but it isn't palatable. According to Moore, in eighteen months things will change a lot. Cisco is still a very very good bet for a long term investment, I even think it is good over the next eighteen months. The Cisco IOS is like a Unix shell and it is nothing at all like Windows2000 (W2K). I do agree that W2K is very scary though, much scarier than that Y2K.

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (52889)	5/12/2001 9:26:15 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77398

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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (52889)	5/12/2001 5:08:09 PM
From: M. Charles Swope	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77398

"Interactive TV will be as big a flop as Web TV and the W2K scare" I think this statement reveals a lack of imagination. I would speculate that a "Survivor" type of program in which the audience got to decide who stays and who goes might be quite popular. Then there's home shopping. Of course, a program here and there isn't going to support the infrastructure required but if the concept of convergence has any validity, then there's going to have to be a fair amount of interactivity as the 'net and TV meld. We've got a classic "chicken and egg" problem here. Interactive programming needs interactivity and interactivity won't happen without programming. However, once it gets going, it will, I speculate, prove popular. Charlie