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To: DiViT who wrote (35386)	8/22/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

eTV..................................... eet.com Posted: 11:45 p.m., EDT, 8/21/98 Debate rages over how to bring data and Net technologies to TV By Junko Yoshida SECAUCUS, N.J. - The debate over how to bring data and Internet technologies to digital television will come into high relief in the next week as a key industry group convenes here to discuss a set of proposals that has come under fire, just as another scheme begins making the rounds. Microsoft and Thomson have tipped plans to develop a proprietary approach - dubbed "eTV" - and take it to a separate forum in hopes of broadly licensing their technology. The latest twists on the road to data broadcasting suggest that what once seemed like a rivalry between PC and consumer-electronics camps is morphing into a more complex battle that has a mix of companies from both industries digging in their heels on two sides of a central debate: whether to leap to next-generation Internet standards and Java, or to leverage the Internet's current tool set for use in digital TVs. Consumer giant Thomson has aligned itself with the PC-centric Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF), which backs using today's Internet technology; an engineer associated with Gateway is writing a key spec for the consumer-oriented DTV Application Software Environment (DASE) group, which backs Java.

To: DiViT who wrote (35386)	8/22/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: lindend	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

>>Linden deCarmo (lindend@ibm.net) is a Staff Software Engineer at Oak>> I'm no longer at Oak. I (and many other high quality software engineers) left when the Boca software site closed down. The details and ramifications behind this were discussed in the Yahoo oak forum. Needless to say, my future articles will have a different byline. :-) >>if Wen Hsu>> From what I've heard, he's gone too.

To: DiViT who wrote (35386)	8/24/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Microsoft, Deutsche Telekon, and Pace........ Microsoft teams on Web TV plan By Reuters Special to CNET NEWS.COM August 24, 1998, 5:25 a.m. PT FRANKFURT--German telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft plan to enter jointly the market for Internet television, according to reports. Focus news magazine reported in an advanced summary of the article in last Monday's edition that both companies planned to market jointly a device that would connect a TV set with the Internet. The new WebTV decoder would be unveiled next week at the CeBIT Home consumer electronics fair in Hanover, Focus said. It said the decoder, which will allow viewers to access the Internet and receive and send electronic mail using their TV sets, would sell at less than $278 each. Focus said that such WebTV purchase price would apply when combined with a subscription of Deutsche Telekom's T-Online Internet service. The magazine also said that the British decoder maker Pace Micro Technology was picked to build the WebTV box. news.com