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To: Peter V who wrote (35137)	8/11/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

General Instrument and TCI Deploy GI's One-Millionth Interactive Digital Set-Top GI & TCI Celebrate Consumer Acceptance of Digital Interactive Platform with the Commercial Deployment of GI's One-Millionth Digital Cable Set-Top HORSHAM, Pa. and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- General Instrument Corporation (NYSE: GIC) and Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) (Nasdaq: TCOMA; TCOMB), celebrated the installation of GI's one-millionth digital cable set-top, marking consumer acceptance of the industry-leading interactive digital cable platform. The landmark set-top was installed today at a home on TCI's Digital Cable system in Dallas, Texas. With the installation of the millionth digital set-top system, the Sharp family of Dallas, Texas received an enhanced video product that uses advanced compression technology to deliver more TV entertainment channels, parental control, and an on-screen navigator that includes a customized programming menu. With the celebration of this one-millionth installation, Dave Moss, GI's Director of Sales, together with Mark Morrison, General Manager of TCI Cablevision of Dallas, presented the Sharp family with a free television set, a variety of promotional items from digital programmers, and six months of free cable from TCI. "We're really excited to have this new service in our home, and to be the one-millionth digital family. Especially with our son, the educational channels and the parental control of TCI Digital Cable adds value and is a big plus as part of this expanded package," said Lisa Sharp, a Dallas TCI customer. "We're very pleased with the positive and overwhelming consumer acceptance of our digital platforms and technology. This one-millionth consumer digital set-top deployment is a significant benchmark in the widespread consumer acceptance of this new technology," said Denton Kanouff, VP of Marketing, Digital Network Systems for General Instruments. "This milestone represents the opportunity that cable operators are seizing to stem the tide of competition, provide consumers additional value and choice, and to drive new revenues from their systems." "Our customers have embraced the benefits of digital cable technology, including the added entertainment choices and the convenience of the parental control devices, which all add to the value of our digital package," said Tom Beaudreau, VP of Digital Operations for TCIC, the cable operations arm of TCI. "We chose to partner with GI because of our confidence in the digital technology and in the benefits that digital services bring to us and the consumers that we serve." "The Dallas market is growing and the need for more entertainment choices has been a key to the success of digital here," said Mark Morrison, TCI's general manager in Dallas. "We're honored that the Sharp family is the one- millionth digital customer installed and look forward to offering this product to all of our customers." GI's interactive digital cable systems offers a rich feature set including real-time RF return, MPEG-2 digital video, Dolby AC3 Digital audio, and the ability to integrate seamlessly with embedded GI analog systems. With over 600 installed digital systems passing over 28 million North American homes, GI has unmatched experience and leadership in delivering interactive digital cable. With shipments of over 1.6 million digital interactive set-tops to date, GI's current generation digital interactive set-top, the DCT-1000/1200, provides the industry with a powerful platform capable of delivering a wide range of applications such as Video-On-Demand, Internet access, e-mail, community networking, electronic program guides and more. GI maintains a commitment through its Horizon Developers program to help advance the integration of new services onto GI's digital platform and enable operators to deploy an ever-increasing array of revenue-generating services on their GI digital platforms. More............. newsalert.com

To: Peter V who wrote (35137)	8/11/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Job in San Mateo to make C-Cube chips work in a settop box............ x8.dejanews.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: EMBEDDED SYS. /FIRMWARE/San Mateo From: steve@intch.com (Stephen A. DeFranco) Date: 1998/08/06 Message-ID: <xVoy1.497$Qo1.220046@client.news.psi.net> Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered [More Headers] [Subscribe to ba.jobs.offered] EMBEDDED SYS. /FIRMWARE/San Mateo Senior Software Engineer QUALIFICATIONS: BASIC: BSEE and 5 years experience. Firmware development for embedded systems using RTOS. Debugging using in Circuit Emulators. Developing and documenting device drivers, API PREFERRED: MSEE and 5 to 7 years experience. Experience using Motorola 68xxx/sparclite embedded controllers. Using Plicrotek in CCT emulators. Developing Set Top Box firmware. Developing graphics API. DUTIES: Contribute to Set Top Box design specification to provide a development platform for customers using C-Cube chipsets for their set top box designs. Support Tech Marketing to resolve customer issues. Create test benches to test C-Cube chipsets and microcode as a part of overall release test plan. Please take a moment to review other opportunities on our web page intch.com

To: Peter V who wrote (35137)	8/12/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DTV. Putting the Buildings and systems together.................... Helping Stations Get There By Michael Grotticelli , Editor The advent of digital television (DTV) has brought with it a wide variety of complex issues--relating to system connectivity and flexible facility design--that has even the most seasoned chief engineers seeking outside help as they plan for the future. And while many predicted that tower and transmitter manufacturers would be the ones to benefit the most from the implementation of this new infrastructure, it seems that facility design and system integration companies like Glendale, CA-based National TeleConsultants, Inc. (NTC) have also become quite popular as stations maneuver through the digital transition. NTC began in 1981 as a group of systems engineers that quickly became adept at helping stations design and later build forward-looking facilities as broadcasters began the changeover from analog to digital infrastructures. John Aalto is a vice president in the projects group at NTC, who's chiefly responsible for supervising project management and client interface activities for broadcast facilities large and small. With a degree in Electrical Engineering, Aalto has spent over 30 years in and around radio and television stations and thoroughly understands the way they work. He's overseen the design and installation of a number of recent digital projects, such as the Fox Network Center, in Los Angeles and Optus Vision, in Sydney, Australia. NTC has also been selected by DirecTV (of El Segundo, CA) to provide baseband system design and integration services for the DBS provider's new, all-digital Los Angeles Broadcast Center (LABC) in Marina del Rey. Aalto spoke with TELEVISION BROADCAST Editor Michael Grotticelli about the difficulties of building for a future that is not altogether certain at this point and he offers some advice on how stations can get there (DTV) from here (NTSC). Television Broadcast (TVB): With the transition to DTV slowly moving ahead, it seems your company and others like you have become popular with those seeking answers to the myriad of design issues still unresolved. What are some of the most asked questions you've heard from engineers as they consider their options? Aalto: Well, the first thing most clients ask us is "when will this project be finished?" Everybody is on a fast track and it seems like our clients also feel that they are late in making the transition. These are very expensive systems and buildings we're putting together and the financial people, once they've committed, are eager to make their money back as soon as possible. The next important issue clients ask us about is "What do I do about the volatility in the potential distribution formats?" We deal a lot with network distribution facilities and the number one question is, "Can you help us envision a transition from our existing plant to the future that will viable five to 10 (or more) years from now?" The answer is that it's a real challenge, but if you take the highest level look at where the industry is going, I think it's fairly accurate to suggest a networked, computer-based system that can evolve from an existing matrixed, point-to-point facility. A lot of our answers are based on how existing buildings are designed, how facilities are structured to allow for technology transitions such as redundant wireways, and our ability to install new systems on top of old systems without disrupting current operations. We at NTC are believers in the flexibility of the facility, and when I say "facility," I'm including the actual bricks and mortar of the building. So, much of our work includes detailed support of the architects and engineers who are designing the physical space. This begins with the highest level of the concepts in programming--what do you want to do and how big a space do you need to do it in--down to the fine details of branch circuit distribution, power, specialty grounding systems, and a wide variety of special requirements for architects. TVB: When you design a new facility, how much do you commit to a certain strategy or standard and how much do you leave flexible? Aalto: Each station owner makes a decision early on as to how flexible they think their facility needs to be. Some broadcasters (such as Turner Entertainment in Atlanta) are experimenting with a completely flexible, modular network concept that includes network release control positions that are islands in an "open office" environment. They don't have partitioned walls and sound isolation. They are out in the open, so that they can expand these control rooms on an as-need basis and add channels fairly easily without continually having to do building construction. Others want 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround (AC-3) capability in their on-air control room, which requires an extremely high level of isolation between rooms. In this scenario you're going to critically monitor the audio signal in the network release room. This requires masonry walls which are not very traditional in a broadcast structure. They are expensive to construct and very difficult to modify once they've been installed. More....................... tvbroadcast.com