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

To: Kevin who wrote (1361)	4/27/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: Ian deSouza	Respond to of 2843

Rockwell Digital Camera Processor Chip Caps Complete Low-cost Solution for Desktop PC Video On PCI Bus Today's News. newsalert.com Rockwell's second-generation Fusion family extends this platform by also capturing broadcast TV audio and stereo FM radio without the cabling and extra cost associated with previous architectures. Fusion lets users listen to a stereo radio broadcast, watch their favorite TV news program, send videomail, conduct videoconferences with friends and associates, or receive VBI data services like Teletext, Intel's Intercast and WavePhore's WaveTop. Looks like the WaveTop is on a roll...

To: Kevin who wrote (1361)	4/27/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: Ian deSouza	Respond to of 2843

Kevin, You're correct on both counts. Intel came up with the Intercast idea as enabling marketing avenues for Intel machines. The core technology for getting and translating the VBI data from TV signals into TV signal and content is from WAVO. Intercast is a superset of this functionality. It involved other things like the protocol between datacasters, and the end clients. Microsoft completes the picture by putting this software into the OS so that we can get WaveTop on every machine that has 98.