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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (32929)	5/5/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Tatung is a CUBE customer. May 5, 1998 (TAIPEI) -- With the United States set to begin digital television broadcasts at the end of this year, Taiwan companies are targeting the anticipated global business opportunity for high-definition television (HDTV) products. Tatung Co., Matsushita Electric (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. and Sampo Corp. all said they plan to invest in the business. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission also tentatively decided that by the year 2007, digital broadcasting will completely replace the present analog system. Local home appliance retailers said the annual demand for new TV sets now stands at 20 million units in the U.S. market and 90,000 units in Taiwan. Globally, the figure is as high as 100 million units. Tatung plans to begin delivery of HDTV television receivers in the third quarter of next year. Annual production capacity is estimated at 100,000 units, to supply both the domestic and the U.S. markets. A Tatung spokesman said his company started research and development of HTDV in 1994. Last year, Tatung developed a set-top box, which proved successful in trial broadcasting in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu city, as well as Beijing and Guangzhou in China. The company said it will be ready to introduce its second-generation set-top box in the near future. Mass production of the product is to begin in the fourth quarter and to reach 100,000 units annually. The U.S. and China are to be the major target destinations for exports. (Commercial Times, Taiwan)