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To: Barney Rubble who wrote (5781)	8/6/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: Barney Rubble	Respond to of 6297

" Digital TV decoders will be pricey, as evidenced by Mitsubishi's $3000 HD-1080 and this Panasonic $1700 mode." This article from the August issue of Popular Science (pg.44) does not show that box top HDTV will be very popular for a while. Maybe even slower than DVD. " When digital TVs arrive this fall, prices of $4000 and higher will probably keep most people from rushing out to their local electronics store. Instead, many will likely explore a less expensive option-a set-top box that receives digital signals on existing analog or DTV-compatable sets. It now appears, however, that these boxes won't sell at bargain basement prices either. Mitsubishi is planning to market its set-top HD-1080 receiver for about $3000. Panasonic will do a little better: It's TU-DST50 set-top box should cost about $1700, a price made possible by the development of a SINGLE CHIP that will decode all the digital TV formats. The least expensive decoder will probably be RCAs $700 DTC-100. So what's inside the box? In addition to the digital TV decoder, these boxes-which are about the size of a VCR include Dolby Digital surround sound circuitry. They also have a host of analog and digital connections. Panasonics model, for example, employs a 1394 digital connector, which is the link to the sub $1000 digital VHS VCR that the company will introduce this fall for recording DTV programs.