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Technology Stocks : Echostar Comm. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Satellite Mike who wrote (500)	12/7/1997 10:15:00 PM
From: Noel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1394

I think that their box is the best in the world. There's no question that Echostar's engineering group has once again proven invaluable to Charlie. These people came up with a fantastic piece of electronics. Of course, they had more experience than anybody in building a satellite receiver and knowing what the consumer wanted, because they did that in C band for years, but they figured out how to integrate compression technology the first time out of the box with no major flaws and a much smaller budget than RCA, who has given backwards engineering a new meaning by making each successive generation of DSS product more cumbersome than the last. Charlie is selling his box to ExpressVu in Canada and to Telefonica (?) in Spain. That should help distribute his costs a little further too... NOEL