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To: BillyG who wrote (34135)	7/2/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Comments on the effects of the AT&T TCI deal: "This certainly takes the brakes off the buying momentum," said Steve Necessary, president of Scientific-Atlanta Inc.'s digital-video group. "It takes away a lot of the uncertainty and the ambivalence as to whether or not these advanced networks and services are really going to happen ... It's a great affirmation for broadband." David Robinson, vice president and general manager of General Instrument Corp.'s digital-video-business unit, said, "This is great for our transmission business, and it really puts an exclamation point on our digital set-top product -- especially the one with the built-in cable modem." multichannel.com

To: BillyG who wrote (34135)	7/2/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DTV measured in "Tonage"..................................... tvbroadcast.com Where Will The "Tonnage" Come From? At the recent NCTA convention, Leo Hindery, president of Telecommunicatiosn, Inc. (TCI), said that, in the short term, the "tonnage" of programming that digital compression will allow will be more important than the better pictures that HDTV provides. Forgetting for a moment that cable companies like TCI don't really want to carry high definition (except for Time Warner Cable, which will probably have HBO-HD, and Cablevision, which will probably have MSG-HD) because broadcasters' high definition signal will take up too much bandwidth, this is not such an outrageous statement. It will take a few years for high definition TV sets to saturate the viewing public's living rooms. I've heard this before... that compression and digital technology will bring about the need for more programming. Some of that programming will be archives. Archives is a nice way of saying repeats--like the Game Show Network and Nick at Nite show. But where will the new programming come from and where will it really be needed?