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To: DiViT who wrote (239)	3/17/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 324

Philips Trimedia going into lots of DTVs............... techweb.cmp.com <<Philips, a significant manufacturer of set-top boxes for the European market, said it will ship 1 million set-top boxes and digital TVs with an integrated decoder during 1998, but none of these will incorporate the Trimedia. Adri Baan, president and chief executive officer of Philips Business Electronics, said the Trimedia chip would be used in Philips's future digital-TV products for Europe. To support the high-definition capability of ATSC without a coprocessor, TV makers will need to step up to the next-generation Trimedia-2 device. The current TM-1000 decodes MPEG-2 main-profile, main-level data streams, but requires a coprocessor to decode MPEG-2 main-profile, high-level streams. Philips now plans to announce its Trimedia-2 VLIW (very-long-instruction word) architecture and to begin sampling the device in September, then to move to volume production in 1999.>>

To: DiViT who wrote (239)	3/18/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: Maya	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 324

biz.yahoo.com What Happens When Consumers 'Go Digital'? Speakers, Companies With a Point of View - or an Enabling Technology or Product - Now Being Sought for David Coursey's Digital Living Room Conference SAN MATEO, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Speakers who can inform and intrigue one of the industry's most influential audiences are now being sought for David Coursey's Digital Living Room, a new executive conference from Upside. Digital Living Room (DLR) is scheduled June 21 to 24 at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California. Companies with leading edge technologies and products that expect to thrive when the consumer experience goes digital are also invited to demonstrate products during the conference. Co-presented by Upside magazine, Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Digital Television Magazine, and TWICE, the conference will take a look into the future of technology, information and entertainment as they emerge more completely in consumers' lives. Digital Living Room will include onstage presentations, debates and interviews as well as selected product and technology demonstrations. Submitting a Product or Speaker Proposal The deadline for speaker proposals is March 20. Industry leaders (CEOs and senior-level executives) who have a clear point of view are invited to provide a one-page abstract on the proposed topic, along with a biography of the proposed speaker. ''I'm looking for speakers who will tell the audience something new - or help them shape a clearer vision of a trend or technology they need to understand,'' explained conference executive producer David Coursey. ''I want to hear from you if you have answers to questions such as: How will consumers respond as entertainment, information, and related technology evolves? If we build it, will they really come? How does anyone make money from the shift from analog to digital technology anyway? I also want to hear from you if you have a product or technology that you believe will be essential in the all-digital world consumers will encounter soon. ''Some futurists predict that the living room of the future will be filled with devices that were the stuff of science fiction only a few years ago. Others think that we'll see an evolution, where existing devices get smarter and add functions. We want to showcase some brand-new technologies as well as those that add new twists to familiar standards. Alpha, beta, still-in- development, or just beginning to ship products are welcome if they have the potential to shape the consumer's digital future.'' Additional details about the conference and the selection process are available on the Digital Living Room web site at digitallivingroom.com. Speaker proposals should be send to Rachel Latta at Upside Media, Inc., via e-mail at rlatta@upside.com or via fax to (650) 372-1468. The conference will also feature a product demonstration area featuring selected products that demonstrate an innovative solution or vision for the future of the digital home. Each product will be personally selected by David Coursey. Some products may appear on stage during an 8-10 minute presentation followed by questions from the audience, while others will be selected for presentation in the demonstration areas only. Applications for products to be shown at the conference can be submitted online at digitallivingroom.com. For additional information about the product selection process, please contact Tiffany Freeman via e-mail at tfreeman@upside.com. Registering to attend Digital Living Room Attendance is limited to senior executives of technology, entertainment or media companies interested in digital technologies and their impact on consumer markets. Board members of these companies, venture capitalists and members of the financial community are also welcome. Early Bird registrations are discounted to $1,995 until May 15, 1998. To register, call (888) 33-UPSIDE (338-7743) or register online at digitallivingroom.com. Sponsors David Coursey's Digital Living Room is a presentation of Upside Events, the conference production and management unit of Upside Media Inc., publisher of Upside Magazine, and David Coursey, editor and publisher of the influential coursey.com newsletter. Both companies are privately held and based in San Mateo, CA. Visit the Upside web site at upside.com. Digital Living Room sponsors and partners include Broadcasting & Cable, Computer Chronicles, Digital Television, General Magic (Nasdaq: GMGC - news), IBM, (NYSE: IBM - news), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news), TWICE, Upside Magazine, and ZDTV. SOURCE: Digital Living Room

To: DiViT who wrote (239)	4/8/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Maya	Respond to of 324

NCI Demonstrates Next Generation Set-Top Box Powered By Intel's Pentium Processor biz.yahoo.com NCI Demonstrates Next Generation Set-Top Box Powered By Intel's Pentium Processor Pentium Design Delivers Speed and Performance on NCI's TV Navigator Platform LAS VEGAS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show today, Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) demonstrated the first set-top box powered by an Intel Pentium microprocessor. Running NCI's TV Navigator, the Pentium processor-based system exhibited one of the fastest environments for delivering Internet-enabled services and applications to consumer's television sets. Today's announcement also adds a powerful, proven and robust platform to the many chip architectures that NCI already supports. With today's Pentium demonstration, consumers can expect faster performance from set-top boxes for Enhanced TV(TM) applications that integrate the television and Internet experience. Powered by a 166 MHZ Pentium processor, the set-top box demonstrated a variety of Enhanced TV applications on NCI's TV Navigator platform including electronic picture mail, electronic programming guides, news tickers, interactive chat and Web browsing. In the future, the Pentium processor-based system can also enable a host of next generation applications such as video on demand through MPEG, video conferencing, telephony and virtual modeling through VRML. Today's announcement also adds another prominent chip platform that NCI supports. NCI's software technology is architecture agnostic and runs on a wide range of microprocessors including Intel's 486, Pentium, PowerPC, MIPS, Sparc and ARM. ''We're excited to be the first Internet software company to support a Pentium based set-top box,'' said David Roux, CEO of NCI. ''Together NCI and Intel are pushing the envelope for speed and performance on set-top computers. Ultimately consumers will benefit with the fastest systems that meet their demands for running the growing amount of content and services from the Internet.'' ''Today's demonstration is a major milestone for the set-top computer market,'' said Ganesh Moorthy, General Manager of Intel's Appliance and Computing Division. ''Over the next decade set-top computers have the potential to become a common device in every home. Working with NCI we have demonstrated that these devices can always deliver an environment that's both easy to use and provides a fast and robust system for computing in the living room.'' NCI is an affiliate of Oracle Corp. [Nasdaq:ORCL - news] and Netscape and is the leading provider of open software for easy to use Internet enhanced products. Founded in 1996, NCI brings its technology to homes, schools and businesses through its strategic worldwide alliances. NCI is based in Redwood Shores California, and can be reached at 650/631-4600. NCI's Web site is nc.com. Trademarks TV Navigator, NC and Enhanced TV are trademarks of Network Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are used for identification purposes and may be the property of their respective owners. SOURCE: Network Computer, Inc.