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To: DiViT who wrote (26693)	12/15/1997 3:41:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Good news that Zenith is in Intel's camp. But what's this? Intel's digital-TV thrust is based on cutting the cost of a living room appliance by eliminating separate MPEG -2 and Dolby AC chip sets and shifting the decompression work to software on the Pentium II. For the show demonstration, Zenith used a 300-MHz Pentium II for a 420-line progressive-scan computer screen. A 740-line progressive-scan or full 1,028-line interlaced HDTV format would require a 400-MHz microprocessor, which Snopko said he expects Intel will have next year. They won't fit a 400MHz Pentium II into a $300 STB........

To: DiViT who wrote (26693)	12/16/1997 12:30:00 AM
From: Carnac	Respond to of 50808

SoftDTV: >Zenith, a member of the grand alliance of TV-set makers that forged >the HDTV standard, offered a backstage look at its PC DTV at the >Western Cable Show in Annaheim, Calif. The demonstration came on the >heels of Intel's announcement of a multifront initiative to >establish Pentium II as the dominant processor for DTV systems. I saw this "back stage" demo at the Cable Show. It was dropping frames and had extra noise all over the place. You do not want to watch TV this way. (HDTV will look worse than a SDTV counterpart). ...unless Intel plans an improved Pentium (like MMX-2).