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To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (17711)	5/1/2002 6:16:00 PM
From: Don Hand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21142

Video-On-Demand’s Great Escape Existing and looming VOD specifications and standards aim to pick the lock on proprietary systems, shave down costs, speed up deployments and, eventually, forge a common template for wide-scale everything-on-demand services -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jeff Baumgartner, Assistant Editor cedmagazine.com Mr. Baumgartner is opening a can of worms with this article. So if by any chance that he reads these boards. Let me ask him these questions. Set Tops have been around for about 30 years. I live in Atlanta. Can I walk into AT&T Broadband's office and get a choice between a Motorola digital set top or a Scientific Atlanta set top? Can I walk into Bestbuy and buy my own set top and plug it into my wall at home? The answer is NO. VOD is not proprietary by design. It just has to link the big mess the MSO bought. And when I call AT&T service on an outage, I get a recording that says we know it is out-of-service and we will get working [insert] "when ever we feel like it". AOL investors don't care about proprietary. They just want revenue to get their stock price back up. Are they going to wait for Sun, HP, SGI to configure all that stuff? Mr. Baumgartner Please ask SGI: "where have you been since 1996". Time Warner had an open RFP for Pegasus after SFA was picked for the Headend/STB. Some or all of them attended the meetings. The list was even posted on the Time Warner web site. CCUR was there as well as Harris RT (before they merged). It's not proprietary. It's innovation.