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To: Eric who wrote (56830)	1/22/2002 10:35:09 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Another agreement about the execrable quality of "digital teevee" from satellites (DishNetwork) I built a C band system in my backyard around 1980, and the video from that on stuff like live ESPN sports feeds, where they really had quality source, was some of the best NTSC video I've ever seen, and this was over 20 years ago. It was breathtaking what standard analog could do. I'm not holding my breath for internet delivery of the necessary bandwidth to get DVD or HD quality over the net, but it sure would be nice if I could get parisian TV in Boston that way. (It would be even nicer to be back in Paris.) Actually, long before the bandwidth ever becomes available, everything will be encrypted and we'll be paying Microsoft per use licence fees through your online Passport account, even for playing videos of our kids. Mark my word, that's where things are heading. There won't be any video display hardware without encryption built right in, it's already happening with the displays that use a firewire interface. By the way, I read somewhere that 80% of South Korea internet access is high speed (DSL/Cable or even better at cybercafes.) Is that really true?