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Technology Stocks : WavePhore (WAVO)- VBI fed WaveTop for WebTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Len Webb who wrote (871)	2/3/1998 9:57:00 PM
From: gary lavan taft	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2843

THE PBS SIGNAL MIGHT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO GET IT WITH A CHEAP SET OF RABBIT EARS THAT YOU COULD HIDE BEHIND YOUR PC. THEN YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RUNNING CABLE FROM YOUR TV TO YOUR PC. I SURE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM SOMEONE THAT HAS HAD A CHANCE TO SEE WAVETOP WORK! GOOD LUCK!!!

To: Len Webb who wrote (871)	2/4/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 2843

If any of you will be purchasing new TV Tuner cards in the coming weeks you may want to get the ATI All-In-Wonder. As it is the card that Microsoft is officially supporting during the beta phase of Win98 -- Microsoft's drivers that support the Broadcast Architecture are being written for this card. Other TV Tuner card manufacturers will have to write their own drivers and will likely be behind in the process. WavepTop probably has it's own driver and could work with a variety of cards. I don't know enough just yet to say. -------- Windows 98 'Preview Edition' will be available for $29.00 at computer stores or through the mail. (note the drivers in that release don't support the ATI All-In-Wonder PRO high-end card) One of the more interesting features of Win98 is the Multi-monitor drivers where you can plug in up to 9 monitors and spread out a virtual desktop among them. You could place WaveTop on it's own monitor. Testers are reporting: a tuner card (with monitor output) works OK as the primary monitor card and one of the 'approved' PCI/AGP monitor cards can be used as secondary. (old ISA buss cards can't be used as the 2nd card) I'm waiting for permission to post the list of 'approved' monitor cards here.

To: Len Webb who wrote (871)	2/4/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2843

"Comcast, said that they do not have any plans to broadcast over the VBI. " Len, Interesting comment, doesn't Microsoft own this cable company? Do you mean they won't be inserting the PBS data feed, or that they won't be originating their own content? Note: there is some data (besides closed captioning) that the cable companies can't strip... "TV Cross-over links" is a method pioneered by WebTV to imbed URLs into a tv broadcast -- it's been accepted as a standard. The TV producer inserts an encoded web URL into VBI Line 21 Closed Captioning Text field 2. (it's also used to send the V-chip program advisories) The URL points to a web page that relates to the programming on the screen at that time. When a tuner card/software detects it an (i) icon will display on the TV screen. You click on the icon to fetch the related website. Microsoft has produced some interactive content that will premier in some episodes of Bay Watch to be broadcast in May. (I assume with the official release of Win 98) Paul