To: BillyG who wrote (29472 ) 2/13/1998 3:07:00 PM From: BillyG Respond to of 50808
***AOL Reportedly To Team With Cable TV Company DULLES, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1998 FEB 13 (NB) -- By Bob Woods, Newsbytes. America Online [NYSE:AOL] is anticipating that it will join a cable television company like @Home [NASDAQ:ATHM] or Time Warner's [NYSE:TWX] Road Runner to deliver content to homes via high-speed cable modems, instead of much slower analog modems, a press report said. *********************************************************** Digital TV Guidance From British Govt LONDON, ENGLAND, 1998 FEB 13 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. After months of watching the TV and broadcasting industry trying to sort through digital broadcasting, the British government has now outlined the broad guidelines for the path it wants to see the UK TV industry take over the next few years. ****************************************************** Intertainer Brings Full Motion Video Now BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 FEB 12 (NB) -- By Linda Dailey Paulson. Cable and telecommunications companies have been talking about video on-demand for years, but it's taken a start-up company whose executives have expertise in entertainment to make this reality. Internainer, Inc. is a Santa Monica-based company which unveiled its interactive on-demand broadband service at The Networked:Entertainment:World (N:E:W) Conference. ****************************************************** HP Media Server Helps TV Station Manage Commercials QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES, 1998 FEB 13 (NB) -- By Jennifer B. Malapitan, Metropolitan Computer Times. The Lopez-run broadcast giant, ABS-CBN, recently became the first to acquire Hewlett-Packard Company's [NYSE:HWP] HP MediaStream Broadcast Server in the Philippines.