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To: ed who wrote (3736)	8/22/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 21876

>> Better sell your CIEN holding before it drops to the single didit area. << Better go read the TLAB thread where I stated last week that I had no position in TLAB or CIEN. exchange2000.com All I was doing was correcting misstatements by Ibexx. Got any more ridiculous advice for me ed?

To: ed who wrote (3736)	8/22/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 21876

From the CUBE thread: Lucent Digital Video Ships First HDTV Encoder to Harris Corp. for Delivery to Broadcast Customer MURRAY HILL, N.J. (Aug. 20) BUSINESS WIRE -Aug. 20, 1998--Lucent Digital Video, a wholly- owned venture of Lucent Technologies, today announced the first shipment of its production-quality HDTV encoder to its strategic partner Harris Corp. The encoder, the first of many that are scheduled for delivery to Harris in the next two months, will be delivered to one of the U.S. television stations that have purchased equipment from Harris Corp. to begin digital television (DTV) broadcasting on November 1, 1998. Designed by Lucent Digital Video, the encoder - which is sold by Harris as the FlexiCoder - is the only MPEG-2 encoder that allows broadcasters to migrate from standard definition to high-definition video with the addition of a single video module. The encoder delivers crisp, clear pictures in either the 1080-line interlaced or 720-line progressive mode of HDTV transmission and also supports Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)-compliant multichannel audio. "Lucent is an aggressive player in the transition to digital television. Today's shipment demonstrates our commitment to the on-time delivery of new products to our customers," said Andreas Papanicolaou, president of Lucent Digital Video. "This is the result of more than 10 years of digital video research and development from Bell Labs." U.S. television broadcasters are mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement DTV on a very aggressive schedule. The more than 1,600 U.S. television stations with DTV channels are required to be on the air with the digital service between November 1998 and May 2003. The Lucent HDTV encoder was designed and built by Lucent Digital Video, with key components supplied by IBM Microelectronics and Lucent Microelectronics. For more information on the Lucent MPEG-2 Digital Video System, visit the Lucent Digital Video Web site at www.lucent.com/ldv. Lucent won a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award in 1997 for its pioneering work in DTV as a member of the HDTV Grand Alliance. The company, which contributed to the original MPEG-2 specification, also built the world's first MPEG-2 and digital HDTV encoders. Lucent Digital Video is one of several new entrepreneurial business groups formed by Lucent to bring to market the best of Bell Labs technologies. Leveraging decades of Bell Labs, research and development, the group was formed to manufacture and market digital video products, including encoders. Lucent Digital Video markets its product line for cable, wireless cable, fiber optic and satellite back-hauling, DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) and other applications worldwide. In January, 1998, Lucent Digital Video announced a strategic alliance with Harris Corp. to market DTV equipment for the North American broadcast market.