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To: Road Walker who wrote (42520)	12/17/1997 8:32:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 186894

RE; Cable/Internet. Much thanks to the many people who responded. It's clear from the responses that a number of cable providers are offering PC connections to the internet. Appears that it's very fast, but I suspect there are no "contention" issues at this time because of the low implementation. As an investor, I am more interested in the TCI initiative for millions of $300 set-top boxes with Wintel, et al inside. For some reason neither TCI nor WebTV Plus is offering true internet access, but a only few internet like services. Perhaps the problem is the set-top can't provide the necessary features found in a PC. However, WebTV Plus has many of these features. A risk processor, two modems, an operating system, browser, a hard disk, video processing, etc. All this for less than $300. Yet their focus is on services like movie download and content specific data concurrent with cable programming. Why not full internet access?