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To: Scott Patrick Adams who wrote (27849)	10/26/1997 3:02:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 31386

[Kudos!!!] <<<I tend to believe that the telecommunications industry knows a lot more about putting up high speed reliable two way networks than the cable/entertainment industry. Not to mention the building,maintaining and managing of the networks. >>>> Congratulations on penning the "Getting to the Heart of the Matter Response of the Month." JW, you keeping track of these awards???? I don't know about anyone else, but I not only save the best posts to my Word files, but make hard copies, as well. Thanks for sharing your expertise! Cheers! Pat

To: Scott Patrick Adams who wrote (27849)	10/26/1997 6:30:00 PM
From: srvhap	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[Questions...] "Ted Turner needs to keep up with the "Entertainment technology" not the media technology. " This is the point that I am trying to make. Right now there is just not very much on the web that will be greatly enhanced by the increase in bandwidth of ADSL. I use a 56K modem (average throughput rate of around ~40K) and spend a lot more time reading than downloading data. Why because there is not a lot of content on the web that requires the increase in bandwidth. Sure, I would like to get data faster, maybe download rates 5 or so times faster than I currently get would be nice, but I would not pay much if anything more for the luxury of getting my web pages loaded in 5-15 seconds rather than 45sec to 1min. Now, if there was well defined content that properly integrated audio, video, 3D graphics, etc. I may pay $75 or so per month. I would only pay this because it would allow me to consolidate what I get from my satellite service. I agree with you that the Teleco industry knows more about building and managing networks than the entertainment industry, but my point is that they don't know, as you so aptly stated, about "Entertainment technology". The next step is going to take the launch of content that is going to make the consumer feel that they just gotta have it. This in turn will put the money in the coffers of the "Entertainment Technology" companies to build out the infrastructure necessary to deliver. Keep up the dialog. Thanks.