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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nimbus who wrote (3743)	5/12/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: Christiaan McDonald	Respond to of 21143

Excellent articles Tmrent, thanks for posting them. I had read Part 1 already but Part 2 was also very good. I am glad Time Warner was at the show because CCUR and Prasara clearly had the best demo. Ken

To: Nimbus who wrote (3743)	5/17/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Kurt A. Altmann	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21143

tmrent or anyone... As far as content storage for IVOD (or the likely setup scenario for same on the initial rollout for residential), will it be only permanently stored content that will be offered, or is it possible for a set-aside percentage of the storage to be used for one time (or infrequent) viewing? I envision a great number of movies that would be selected from a menu, but was wondering if a configuration would exist, where another (larger) menu of diverse content (education, concerts, hobby related, etc.) would allow the cable op to go and RETRIEVE from this remote library when selected, store it in this set-aside space, and stream it to the one viewer. After that, it could be written over by subsequent requests for similar (less frequently requested) content. Sorry for the run-on. I know there would be some royalty provisions to code for, but I was just wondering if this type of flexibility exists in the configuration/implementation of CCURs(and other's) system. Simplified, does all of the content being provided have to pre-exist in the server's storage bank, or is it possible to pull (on demand) other content (perhaps with some obvious delay for "downloading")? If such a library existed, and the system was configured this way, there would be such an open world of content, independent of the storage capacity of the provider's system. Thanks in advance....Kurt