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To: J Fieb who wrote (34841)	8/1/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: CPAMarty	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

However, ADSL services including those from Bell Atlantic will also have to compete with the entrance of competitors such as Sprint, which on Tuesday announced its Integrated Online Network, which offers high-speed voice, data, and video service to homes Will CUBE sell chips to Sprint or does Lucent have it locked up?

To: J Fieb who wrote (34841)	8/1/1998 10:00:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Sharp has a new settop card........................ asiansources.com Product News Posted: July 28, 1998 Set-top parts target digital TV services JAPAN - Sharp Corp. has developed a receiver tuner and decoder board designed for use in digital set-top boxes. The devices were developed in anticipation of the start of terrestrial digital broadcasting in the United States this fall. The devices are designed to receive and decode both analog and digital TV formats to accommodate the transition to digital broadcasting. A double-conversion system ensures clear reception of desired signals while rejecting unwanted frequencies. The tuner section of the receiver tuner is a compact device measuring 12mm thick and consumes 2.5W. It is designed to be embedded into PCI cards for PCs. Samples began shipping in late July, and full production is scheduled to start in August. The move to digital signals will provide users with multichannel broadcast capabilities, higher resolutions, interactive services and PC compatibility. In the United States, plans are in place to convert all of the present terrestrial broadcast system to digital format by the year 2006, so the demand for digital receiver tuners is increasing rapidly. Sharp Corp. Fax: 81-6-6281653 Tel: 81-6-6211221

To: J Fieb who wrote (34841)	8/2/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: CPAMarty	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Cable modems outpace ADSL zdnet.com

To: J Fieb who wrote (34841)	8/2/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

More fat pipes needed.............................. mediacentral.com Making Internet/TV Content Seamless By Jim Barthold The TV and computer industries have teamed up on a way to blend bits of the Internet into TV programming, a move designed to accelerate the development of next-generation TVs. In a rare, probably unprecedented show of cooperation, a cross-industry group has formed the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) and drafted an enhanced TV specification. The goal is to give networks and studios a standard way to add text, graphics and other information to programming. Enhanced TV is an interactive format that lets viewers access additional layers of information hidden within the broadcast. For example, an enhanced airing of a sporting event would let viewers browse statistics, call up replays or order team merchandise. In the past programmers have struggled with several different ways of combining TV with data and as a result they've been slow to work with data. In turn, consumer electronics companies haven't built the ability to receive data into their products. "The adoption of this specification by the industry means ... the ability for platform providers to create decoding and display equipment capable of being used in a variety of areas - over-the-air television, cable television, direct-to-home satellite, Internet terminals," said Jay Schneider, VP-engineering and technical development for Discovery Communications Inc., one of 14 founding members. With this kind of specification, consumers can be certain that the decoding products they purchase will receive and display all enhanced programming, he said. "It's just natural," added Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft Corp.'s group product manager-digital TV strategy. "The same way you have to have HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) and scripting and other things as a standard for the Web, even though people compete on the implementation browsers, you have to have a standard in terms of interactive programming in order for everybody to move forward with it." Microsoft and Intel Corp. have been major proponents of enhanced TV and the ATVEF members include Discovery; CableLabs; CNN; DirecTv Inc.; The Walt Disney Co.; Intel Corp.; WebTV Networks Inc. (with Microsoft); NBC Multimedia Inc.; Network Computer Inc. (NCI); Tele-Communications Inc.'s National Digital Technology Center (NDTC); Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); Sony Corp.; Tribune Co., and Warner Bros. Other companies joining ATVEF as "early adopters" include Cable & Wireless Communications plc.; Digital Renaissance; E! Entertainment Television; The Fantastic Corp.; Hitachi Ltd.; Macromedia Inc.; Mixed Signals Technologies; National Geographic Ventures; Sharp Corp.; The Weather Channel, and Wink Communications Inc.