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To: DiViT who wrote (33809)	6/12/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Reilly Diefenbach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

This is good news. How much more money does C-Cube make by selling a ZiVA instead of a CL-680 or CL-480?

To: DiViT who wrote (33809)	6/12/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Settop boxes opening up to competition. And they should start showing up in other CE devises........................... zdnet.com FCC hopes for more competition Under the FCC rules, cable boxes will need a separate plug-in security component -- used to scramble content to prevent piracy -- provided by the local cable operator to function properly. Cable operators must separate the content scrambling component from the rest of the device by July 1, 2000. The sale or leasing of older all-in-one boxes will be prohibited after Jan. 1, 2005. FCC chairman William Kennard said the current cable box situation was similar to the telephone system before regulators required phone companies to allow people plug in any phone set of their choosing. ''We would like to have an era in this country where anybody can plug in a set-top box just the way that you can buy a telephone today in a retail store and plug it into a phone jack,'' Kennard said. That standardization could mean an explosion in features -- set-top functions could be integrated into computers, digital video disc (DVD) players and Internet devices. Market will open "I think you will see a lot of companies get into this market," said Morgan Broman, a spokesman for the FCC. "There will be a shakedown period for the user, and the initial boxes will be expensive, but there will be a lot of services that will be enabled by freeing the box." Set-top box software maker Network Computer Inc. agreed. "This is great for the consumer long term," said David Limp, vice president of marketing for NCI. "There will be a lot more options out there."