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To: John Rieman who wrote (30556)	3/9/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Respond to of 50808

well...I dont do currency.....but the idea is the same.... btw, IMF is holding out more payments to Suharto until April and he says he is going ahead with the currency board... even Ole Baldey on CNBC is saying he guesses that they are willing "to let the currency go to hell" and I dont care how many months a tone has stayed the same.... too much wheeling dealing and corruption behind the scenes... and do you think China is any different...well it might be...but its a good chance its not... I remember that the first brokerage house that went under in Japan had months and months of reports saying everything was fine ...no problems....HA...and look what happened...oh and btw, the government was mixed up in that one... but china has a bigger stake in this whole mess because of Hong Kong... I have seen lots of reports that it isnt enough for the property to be the most expensive in the world...you have to have someone willing to pay the price... i wish I could remember the story about one building that was worth more than something phenomenal...but no one was willing to pay that price.... and like in everything..it is all relative...sort of like the California real estate market..and what happened to it...But only on a much grander scale... But I cant even figure out the US market.(other than ...oh yeah..lets just buy no matter what happens anywhere cause the market is going to 10000 without any correction?!?!??!)..so I dont have a prayer in figuring out the foreign markets...

To: John Rieman who wrote (30556)	3/9/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

What silicon? Carlton, Granada Name Manufacturers For Digital TV Boxes 03/08/98 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 1998, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) LONDON (Dow Jones)--The British Digital Broadcasting joint venture named Grundig AG (G.GRD), Pace Micro Technology PLC, Philips Electronics NV (N.PHI), Nokia OY (Y.NOK), Sony Corp. (SNE) and Toshiba Corp. (U.TOS) manufacturers of its so-called 'plug in and play' set top boxes. BDB said it plans for the boxes to be in shops for the launch in the last quarter of this year. "These orders mean there will be set top boxes in the shops in time for the Christmas selling season," said BDB director Nigel Walmsley. "The arrival of these set top boxes will herald the next step in mainstream television - more choice, with clearer pictures and better sound." BDB is a 50-50 partnership between Carlton Communications PLC (CCTVY) and Granada Group PLC (U.GAA). Last year it won a license to provide digital terrestrial television in the U.K. The set top boxes are intended to allow customers to plug the technology in to existing televisions to receive at least 30 channels via their existing aerials without the need for a satellite dish or cable connection. Several of the manufacturers said they will at the same time launch fully-integrated digital television sets which will contain the necessary decoding technology to receive the TV stations built into the sets at manufacture. The exact value of the production deal wasn't revealed, although a director at BDB admitted it was in the "tens of millions." (END) DOW JONES NEWS 03-08-98