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To: Tim McCormick who wrote (26355)	12/9/1997 8:06:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Tim, I don't know anything about the Zenith deal. LG has announced an HDTV chip set (which this box doesn't need), and it produces Mpact (which did not go into the Zenith/Americast box). To date, Zenith appears to use CUBE in its boxes more than it uses LG ...

To: Tim McCormick who wrote (26355)	12/9/1997 8:36:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

China to Sell First Multimedia Television December 9, 1997 (XIAN, China) -- The first generation of multimedia color televisions will soon hit the market in China. The television, which has a 21-in. screen, was developed by the Huanghe Machinery and Electronics Co., Ltd. and Xian Jiaotong University, located in Shaanxi province in northwest China. Apart from being used as a high-definition television set, it can be used as a computer monitor, with its price much lower than conventional television monitors. (Xinhua News Agency)

To: Tim McCormick who wrote (26355)	12/9/1997 7:27:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Tim, the last sentence answers your question. Zenith says it's the same box........................... <<<<"We have the flexibility to use either dedicated lines [for Americast and Sky products] or mix and match them on a single line," Luehrs said.>>>>>>>>>> Over the next 5 years, Sky is 2.2M boxes............................. Sky Latam Sees 2.2 Mln Brazil Subscribers In 5 Yrs Received: December 08, 1997 11:30pm EST From: REUTERS MIAMI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Satellite TV venture Sky Latin America expects to have 2.2 million subscribers in Brazil within five years, an official with the consortium said Monday. "Next year it is our intention to close (the year) with over half a million subscribers in the digital service and we should end up in the next five years with about 2.2 million subscribers," Adalberto Vianna, chief executive officer of Netsat, told a news conference. Sky Latin America is a $1 billion direct-to-home satellite TV joint venture between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation , Brazil's Globo, Mexico's Grupo Televisa and Tele-Communications International Inc . Netsat is a local operating company working with the consortium in Brazil. Vianna was speaking at a news conference during the inauguration of Sky Latin America's new $140 million satellite transmission center in Miami. Sky Latin America is competing for the direct-to-home satellite TV market with Galaxy Latin America, which is headed by DirecTV International, a unit of Hughes Communications . Vianna said the Sky venture would have about 90,000 subscribers in Brazil by the end of this year. Sky has so far only launched its service in Brazil and Mexico, though it is due to begin operating in Colombia this week. ((--Martin Langfield, Miami newsroom 305 374 5013)) REUTERS