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To: Mo Chips who wrote (43742)	1/3/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: stak	Respond to of 186894

>>Why are you so hot on HDTV w.r.t intel? I am no engineer, but doesn't it not offer anything more (other that better picture and sound and maybe minor levels of interaction) than tv?<<< Next week the CES is at Vegas to show many new products. The HDTV should be one of those that are highlighted. If you prefer color tv over black and white then you can understand the difference between regular tv and HDTV.HDTV is just that much more compelling. HDTV will be super expensive at first. many people won't be able to afford an HDTV right away but that doesn't mean they haven't ruled out buying one. They will save their money and not buy other electronic products or computers >>>I think when bandwidth is not an issue (very far into the future) computers will will power the interactive information age, not HDTV. And while the <$1,000 pc is hot now, I say this doesn't preclude an ever increasing appetite for processing power.Voice is not the be all end all, but an example of an untapped feature that requires processors to run. There are more of these that we probably can't see beyond the horizon.<<< I agree the <$1,000 pc is hot now. I think it'll go the other way though. With the sub$700 pc being hot ,then the sub $500 pc being hot. This doesn't mean i'll be right of course. Processors are unfortunately not going to be the driving force of pc demand as it has been in the past. >>I think you raise good points, but miss the persisant possibility of a new wildcard that changes everything. How many here new what the internet would be just 5 years ago???<<< YES wildcards keep the 'game' exciting. 5years ago I definitely didn't see the importance of the net. But then again neither did MSFT till coupla years ago. >>>I think that as bandwidth increases, so will interactivity on the pc or tv (take your pick on what you call it) and so will our desire to present, manipulate, diseminate, filter that information. This could drive the need for processors beyond levels we can now comprehend. And don;t forget that there will be a computer on the other end of that pipe that will need magnitudes of processing power to keep our ever shorting attention spans...<<< Unfortunately I see the importance of bandwidth eclipsing CPU power for the next 5 years.Sure Intel's not going to shrivel up and die any time soon. more cpu power won't be anything to disregard of course.