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To: Brian Pastor who wrote (2784)	1/29/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4571

From the Jan 19 NY Times. Any guesses whether this is the same Sterling? (Sorry if the line formatting is messed up.) The glowing hockey puck was simply not enough. That is why Stan Honey and Jerry Gepner -- the men who invented and deployed the glowing puck (that's Fox Trax to you) -- have founded a new company dedicated to making sports more interesting. The two, along with a third emigre from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Fox Sports, Bill Squadron, started Sportvision Systems last week with primary backing from Sterling Ventures, an investment firm led by Fred Wilpon, president of the New York Mets, and from Roy Disney's Shamrock Holdings investment operation. It seems that the television world is entering a golden age of digital manipulation. "In the past, limitations in available computing power only allowed special effects to be generated in the studio," said Honey, Sportvision's chief technology officer. "It is now possible to generate special effects in real time, for overlay on sports broadcasts." For instance, the company says it is working on a new feature for basketball broadcasts and is developing "an innovative, compelling way to broadcast poker tournaments on television and the Internet."