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To: Kibby who wrote (24897)	11/5/1997 6:32:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Kibby why not just put a DVDRAM drive in your DirectTV box? You wouldn't need an encoder, the data is already compressed. Just need to write it to the disk in a DVD format. Digital Broadcasts answer to DVD & DVIX. Why not do away with the middleman and broadcast the DVD content already compressed to your customers DVDRAM enabled settop box? With no physical media to distribute and no inventory to support. They could command higher margins but still lower the consumer cost.

To: Kibby who wrote (24897)	11/6/1997 12:48:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

CUBE customer full of Hot air... FutureTel to Co-Sponsor 1997 Hot Air Balloon World Championship in Japan Nov. 15-24 ÿ 11/05/97 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 1997, Business Wire) ÿ SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1997--FutureTel, Inc., designer and marketer of MPEG solutions for broadcast and post-production, will be a co-sponsor of the 1997 Hot Air Balloon World Championship in Saga, Japan, Nov. 15-24, and will furnish an extensive complement of compression and post-production equipment to aid in the worldwide telecasting of the event. Max Hata, FutureTel chairman and chief executive officer, said participants in the event will come from 38 countries, with over 1.2 million spectators estimated to be in attendance. "This is a major worldwide aeronautical and sporting event," he said. "FutureTel is providing the technology to compress, distribute and edit the event footage using its PrimeView and MPEGThere products for MPEG encoding and its ClipView for fast editing at the Netcom Operation Center. Video will then be transmitted via Intranet and Internet around the world . "In addition, attendees at the festival will be able to view the action via a fiber cable network connected to 80 personal computers located throughout the competition site. "Utilizing our newest product, Video Sphinx Pro, FutureTel will also provide video capture and compression capabilities for various kiosks throughout the site. Video Sphinx is a portable, real time input device that connects to the parallel port of a PC or portable laptop, permitting easy capture, compression and editing of video to desktop Internet and Intranet connections. "FutureTel is uniquely capable of providing the spectrum of post-production and video compression and distribution requirements for events of this type and our sponsorship of the hot air championship benefits everyone," Mr. Hata said. FutureTel will be playing back video clips of the event at its booth (M2077) at the upcoming Comdex Show in Las Vegas. FutureTel is located at 1092 E. Arques Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif., 94086. Telephone: 408/522-1400; web site www.futuretel.com. Hot Air Balloon World Championship web site: www.sphere.ad.jp/sagincom/balloon/ . CONTACT: FutureTel, Inc., Sunnyvale Anastasia Yee, 408/522-1400 ayee@futuretel.com 08:33 EST NOVEMBER 5, 1997