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To: Rock who wrote (17770)	5/8/2002 3:43:48 PM
From: Don Hand	Respond to of 21142

They can't do free on-demand programming. That would flood the equipment vendors with orders. Max out factory floors.

To: Rock who wrote (17770)	5/8/2002 3:52:08 PM
From: Rock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21142

Its very interesting to watch the VOD evolution from the packaged media side... Many competing forms of electronic entertainment are taking away from the home video experience. The novelty of "Watching a movie at home", has all but vanished. We've virtually lost the 12-18 yr old males to 128bit video games and the Internet (where they can play games with some hot shot in like Germany or something) and much needs to be said about the massive viewing choices one gets from Direct TV and most cable companies these days While there is a lot to be said of the virtues of DVD (as a supplier of prerecorded VHS tapes for a dozen years, DVD has really become my livelihood these days) not too many people realize that DVD isn't capable of outputting High Definition TV signals. HDTV has been ramping up for over a decade. I can recall 5 yrs ago it being said that we would never see HDTV, a complex TV system requiring so many engineers and planners to come together with a common protocol. Now that the FCC has established timelines inclusive of analog/digital simulcasts for the networks, and prepared to enforce these timelines, I'm curious if anyone knows about the ability for the popular VOD systems, primarily Concurrents system, to stream High Def video? It was announced today that on May 28th "Terminator 2" will be the first HD movie to be released on the also much discussed and debated format of DVHS or Digital VHS, a tape based format and thus far, the only format capable of reproducing HD video signals. Seems like we are really headed towards an HD world. Im going to venture a guess that if VOD is compatible with HDTV, this would bridge the gap as consumers decide which format they feel comfortable with, DVHS, which is tape and something the consumer knows or the new DVD HD compatible format, which is still on the drawing board, called BlueRay (utilizing a stronger, more precise blue laser beam)It could quite possible drive the new formats. ROCK