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To: Stoctrash who wrote (35283)	8/19/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

NetTV Announces the Arrival of ExtremeDVD Systems Providing Up to 5 Times the Resolution of Standard DVD Players SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 1998--NetTV announced Wednesday the arrival of its ExtremeDVD(tm) home entertainment system, built to deliver cinema-quality DVD along with arcade-quality 3D gaming. NetTV says these systems provide up to five times the resolution of typical DVD players when combined with NetTV's DTV29, DTV34, or DTV38 PC+TV(tm) monitors. The company also announced today that its current systems support Digital TV using the company's upcoming DTV compatible add-on module due this fall. NetTV Company president Ron Perkes says ExtremeDVD transforms your living room into a theater with video revealing far more detail than previously possible on a TV. ''DVD on a regular TV is not much better than a VCR and that's a real waste. You haven't truly experienced DVD until you've seen our ExtremeDVD system. Theater-like five-channel sound adds to the excitement. Tie down the furniture,'' warns Perkes. ''This is what 480p digital TV will look like when broadcasting starts this fall and we add our DTV tuner to the system. The ExtremeDVD is built to be the industry's best all-around MPEG2 decoder and transcoder, whether we're talking DVD or DTV. ''Games look and sound better than ever on an ExtremeDVD especially when paired with one of NetTV's dynamic lineup of large format monitors. These systems offer outstanding 3D game effects, providing an unsurpassed degree of realism, previously only available on arcade games costing up to 50 times more,'' relates Perkes. ''We're happy to bring this excitement to home entertainment.'' The NetTV ExtremeDVD system can be profiled to meet a variety of requirements at retail prices starting under $1,000. Possible configurations include: DVD2 drive, Intel Pentium II MMX processor; 3D positional sound, 3D AGP graphics, hardware DVD decoder, choice of 56K modem or high speed network adapter, Dolby Digital(tm) sound effects, Dolby Prologic(tm) sound effects, wireless keyboard, hand-held remote control, SDRAM main memory; PCI expansion slots, and 4MB on-board video, hi-speed hard-drives, and Windows software. Internet, email, and thousands of other standard applications can also be run on ExtremeDVD. biz.yahoo.com net-tv.net

To: Stoctrash who wrote (35283)	8/19/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Do you still need to buy at settop? Probably. Canal Plus offers free satellite dishes. Canal Plus really does sell a lot of boxes during Q3. Last year they sold 150k in one six week period.......... skyreport.com France's CanalSatellite Readies Free Dish Offer Aug. 19, 1998 Following British Sky Broadcasting's lead, Canal Plus' DTH unit CanalSatellite will offer free satellite dishes to new subscribers who sign up for service for a year from Aug. 17 to Oct. 31. The offer kicks off a "back-to-school" battle for new subscribers between CanalSatellite and rival Television Par Satellite. TPS reportedly plans unveil its own promotional, back-to-school offer in the next two weeks. New subscriptions to pay-television services accelerate at this time of year in France as people return from vacation. CanalSatellite had 914,969 subscribers at the end of June, while TPS said it had 460,000 subscribers in mid-July.