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

To: jbay who wrote (1076)	4/1/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: doormouse	Respond to of 2843

The best line I've ever read on SI. "Or re-installing MSIE each time you've deleted it... the possibilities are endless. >:)" Thank you jbay! hehehehe!!~! ----- Each VBI line should put through 12 kb/s with Forward Error Correction. In principle, a card could be built to aggregate the 12 kb/s from each of several lines one ONE channel... and/or aggregate multiple lines from different channels. It could be n12,000 bps* with average skills, although I haven't caught wind of anyone's announced intentions (yet) to do this. First things first: VBI as a generic technology offers eyeball-opening sizes of data a parasitic free ride... in principle. Brilliant. (Geographically, even more brilliant for distribution of WAN network and remote-printing traffic in Third World countries where alternative pipes -- in many cases, roads -- are not available, but where are available one or more TV networks.) Here against the incumbents in the ole USA, the "ecology" of such a free ride could conceivably fall victim to the hands of extortionate toll collectors -- local cable companies that can, with a five dollar filter at their head-end, just as easily strip potentially-profitable-to-someone-else VBI content off the distributed signal. (BTW, whether or not the program signal is scrambled "prior to the cable box" is not related.) Who knows? Gate's billion dollar cable investment inarguably would consider MS's wish to encourage delivery companies to expedite migration to wider-bandwidth Internet... maybe perhaps, some agreement amongst the cable Mafia to not blocade the development of so attractive a delivery-system by setting (onerous) fees for not stripping the other guys' VBI line(s). Not a clue! Actually, it feels like a good time for Deeds' PRs to start seeding tragic side stories ("noodles") about "onerous cable tollmeisters" "that greedily -- immorally -- exert force to keep WaveTop from the bulk of the Western World" --- something like, that as a prophalactic move. Of course, where there's a buck to be made, your local cable operator may be expected to reach for it... unless something has been arranged that doesn't meet the eye. Does anybody know whether or not WAVO has said anything to its "expectations" in this regard? Seems important! .k1b0