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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33540)	6/1/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

@Entertainment Plans September 1998 Digital Television Launch in Poland, Terminates Letter of Intent to Develop Polish Launch with Canal+ PR Newswire - June 01, 1998 09:38 WARSAW, Poland, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- @Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATEN) today announced that it has terminated its letter of intent with Telewizyna Korporacja Partycypacyjna ("TKP"), the parent company of Canal+Polska, to bring together @Entertainment's Wizja TV programming service and the CANAL+ Polska premium pay-television channel, and provide for the joint development and operation of a digital direct-to-home ("DTH") television services for the Polish market. The parties were unable to agree and execute definitive agreements for the joint venture by the deadline set forth in the letter of intent. "We are disappointed that the parties were not able to come to an agreement on all of the issues necessary to establish a joint venture between us," Said Bob Fowler, Chief Executive Officer of @Entertainment. "Even thought the letter of intent has been terminated, we have informed TKP that we remain available to discuss the remaining issues that separate us. We are resuming the launch process for Wizja TV and intend to launch the platform this week on our cable television systems and in September 1998 for the DTH market." The letter of intent had included a standstill agreement whereby @Entertainment had agreed, for a period ending May 31, 1998, not to launch its digital pay-television service in Poland. @Entertainment is the developer of both Wizja TV programming and digital DTH service Through its Poland Communications, Inc. subsidiary, the Company owns and operates the largest cable television network in Poland with 847,634 subscribers at April 30, 1998. The aforementioned remarks contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitations those related to variables concerning the establishment or termination of the proposed joint venture, and the timing of the launch for the Company's digital DTH service. SOURCE @Entertainment, Inc.

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33540)	6/1/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Philippines gets new DTH service................................ dbsdish.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Slots Aid Philippine Firm Plotting Broadcast Strategy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Slots Aid Philippine Firm Plotting Broadcast Strategy By Steven Watkins MANILA, Philippines -- The Phil-ippine government has awarded two Philippine-registered orbital slots to a satellite venture planning to be the first and only provider of digital satellite broadcasting to this island nation. "When you look at Asia, the Philippines is the next place of action for DTH (direct-to-home satellite broadcasting)," H. Thomas Navasero, chairman and chief executive officer of H. Thomas Group and its subsidiary, H. Thomas Telesis Inc. of Makati City, said in a Jan. 27 interview. The government in August awarded the company, called Telesis, an exclusive franchise to provide digital satellite broadcasting services in the Philippines. In December, the Department of Transportation and Communications awarded the company two orbital slots registered by the government with the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union. The slots are 151 degrees and 153 degrees east longitude, both with coverage over the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The company plans to begin broadcasting programs in late 1998 via leased transponders on a regional satellite, Navasero and Dennis Young, Telesis president and chief operating officer, said during the same interview. Later, Telesis will consider buying its own satellites, Young said. Although the company has two orbital slots to use, it is proceeding cautiously with plans to buy satellites to occupy them. Navasero and Young said they will not buy satellites for the slots until they are sure it makes good business sense. "If we need more transponders ... and it's cheaper to own our own bird, then we'll do that," Navasero said. The decision to buy satellites for the two slots also would depend on the difficulty of coordinating the frequencies so as not to interfere with neighboring satellites, Young said.

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33540)	6/1/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Wired's new IBM based encoder................................... Wired Inc. Introduces New MPEG2/DVD Encoder Products for PowerMacintosh, Windows95, and WindowsNT 06:03 a.m. Jun 01, 1998 Eastern MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998--Wired Inc. announced today the immediate availability of two new encoder product releases: 1) Butane 2.0 encoding software for PowerMacintosh(R), and 2) ButaneII(tm) MPEG2/DVD realtime encoder for Windows95(R) and WindowsNT(R). Butane 2.0 Software for PowerMacintosh Computers Butane 2.0 is the latest software update for the ButaneII MPEG2/DVD encoder board for PowerMacintosh computers. This new software release includes ButaneApp(tm) 2.0, adding realtime multiplexing of audio and video MPEG2 streams as they are being captured and encoded. Other new features include realtime saving of MPEG2 data while previewing the encoded stream and improved high bitrate encoding. ButaneMux(tm) 2.0, which has been accelerated to over 10x from it's previous version, is also included. "We can now cut the overall MPEG2 stream creation time by more than half," commented Mark Bain, President Wired Inc. "This will save both time and money for all our MPEG encoding clients." more........ user17.promise.com