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To: Arthur Tang who wrote (3131)	4/2/1998 9:10:00 AM
From: Arthur Tang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21143

Interesting write up on HongKong Telecom in "Java at Work in Enterprises" page 16-18, March, 1998 in Object magazine. Video on demand application. objectmagazine.com (get a free issue) HongKong is going for ITV, interactive TV for 2 million subscribers. Figure 1 is Anatomy of a set top box. Java classes Java virtual machine realtime OS Figure 2 is system architecture. Application server and video server ATM switch ONU STB With a common TV user interface, "It looks like a MTV, nothing like a PC," Evensen said. It includes a pre-JMF MPEG player control. More details of the system are described. The first ITV Java prototype was fielded in April, 1997 and ran until July.