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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14229)	11/18/1997 3:36:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>Next year, the company will add streaming video I think this has to do with the ISPs and internet hardware companies having made some agreements on protocols for caching streams that make this stuff practical given the presumptive global bandwidth. Also with the fact that smaller, opportunistic, vertical companies have enhanced the base compression technology (funded by the govs and the big companies at the universities a long time ago) to a practical level. Now that these streams won't bring down the internet, and people are going to be getting 56k/sec from a household modem, and the graphics board vendors/pentium 266/mmx can zoom your low-res source in real time and now that the video protocols actually work pretty well, it's all practical. E.G. Realaudio, VXtreme (which MS just bought out for similar reasons?) and Vivo etc have mapped out the usuable territory, and now Netscape and Microsoft are getting in. Hopefully now the price will go to a point where somebody besides CNN and a few others can afford to do it. Hopefully Netscape will just buy vivo or one of the other available protocols and get it done now. I think employees and stockholders of just about all the streaming compression outfits have reason to hope for a big payday here. There are fewer proprietary protocols available for video and audio than there are big companies who would have reason to buy them out. BTW, does anybody know if and why the hidef tv standard is in trouble? The computer biz could really use that stuff. What is happening? Chaz