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To: BillyG who wrote (27908)	1/9/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Hitachi, Intel to develop PC for viewing digital TV ... 01/09/98 Agence France-Presse (Copyright 1998) Hitachi, Intel to develop PC for viewing digital TV TOKYO, Jan 9 (AFP) - Japan's Hitachi Ltd. and Intel Corp. of the United States will jointly develop a personal computer system for viewing ground-based digital television programs, a Hitachi spoksman said Friday. The system will be based on an all-format decoder (AFD) technology developed by Hitachi's laboratory on digital media systems in Princeton, New Jersey, the spokesman said. The decoder , which accepts all current protocols for terrestrial digital TV broadcasting, was demonstrated last month, he said. The two companies agreed to apply the decoder to the personal computer sector. If the system is commercialized, Hitachi will license Intel to use the technology, the leading business newspaper Nihon Keizai reported. Digital TV broadcasting is set to begin this fall in the United States while a similar service is likely to start in Japan in 2000. In the United States, 18 protocols for terrestrial digital broadcasting are competing for the industry standard under the Federal Communications Commission's policy of letting the market decide which one will prevail, the report said. Hitachi's AFD method is capable of receiving any ground wave from digital broadcasting and automatically convert it into waves that provide a display on a computer screen, the newspaper said. sps/pvh