Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BillyG who wrote (31476)	3/26/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

More WinHEC news. Microsoft did not release specifics for each segment, but said preliminary basic PC 99 requirements are: a processor equivalent at least to a 300MHz Intel Celeron MMX with 128K L2 cache, 32MB RAM (64MB recommended), a 56K-bps modem and BIOS support for Universal Serial Bus keyboards and hubs. Recommended changes: digital broadcast TV included and CD-ROM drives replaced with DVD drives. A longtime legacy feature, the ISA bus, will be abandoned. techweb.cmp.com

To: BillyG who wrote (31476)	3/26/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Next up, NAB, the land of Encoders, Headends, and Settop Boxes. UK DTV is slow................................. infoseek.com Full story Slow start in view for digital television The Guardian Wed, Mar 25 1998 FLEXTECH, which provides basic programming for UK pay-TV operators, yesterday tempered news of its first small profit with a warning that the birth of digital television would be a slow one. The company - whose largest shareholder is the US cable giant Tele-Communications Inc - is to launch its digital TV services later this year. Chairman Adam Singer said, however, that the transition from analogue would be tougher than people anticipated. Services would not explode until a date for the switch off of analogue had been set by the Government. This year and next there would be "virtually no digital subscribers" and Flextech would be dependent on analogue revenues for some time to come.