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To: J Fieb who wrote (35414)	8/24/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Fiebs, I agree that the news is very good today. This is precisely where CUBE/DIVI should be -- in addition to satellite headends, cable headends, settops, digital studios, digital TV, DVD, PC-DVD, VCD, and convergence products. Not bad for a one-product company.

To: J Fieb who wrote (35414)	8/24/1998 8:03:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Pegasus. That MicroSparc-II chip runs the MPEG decode............... techweb.cmp.com Time Warner Cable is claiming the development lead for its Pegasus set-top. Codeveloped by Scientific-Atlanta, Toshiba Corp. and Pioneer, Pegasus runs the PowerTV real-time operating system on a hardware system comprising a 54-Mips 32-bit Microsparc II core and an SGS-Thomson graphics ASIC, with HTML-engine and JavaScript support. Java being incorporated........................... wired.com Java's Set-Top Set-Up by Chris Oakes 10:47am 8.Apr.98.PDT Sun's scaled-down version of the Java application platform made further inroads into the digital TV arena Tuesday as Scientific-Atlanta said it will seek to marry PersonalJava to its set-top box. "PersonalJava gives content providers another developer-friendly tool to roll out interactive applications on our existing and future Explorer set-tops," said Allen Ecker, Scientific-Atlanta's president of subscriber systems. The company will use PersonalJava in its Explorer 2000 cable box, which it says nine US and Canadian cable operators plan to deploy this year. Sun posited the announcement as proof of the cable industry's need for a universal TV application platform. "One of the reasons the [cable industry] likes Java is because they want an open layer for applications, without being locked to a specific operating system," said Eric Chu, Sun's manager of strategic markets for the JavaSoft division. "They have a huge interest in getting applications to run across any set-top box or OS." But while the announcement is the first to show Java heading toward actual deployment in the cable landscape, the new alliance also highlights the technological help PC software companies like Sun need in this exotic hardware world. PersonalJava will only appear in the company's cable boxes once its operating system subsidiary, PowerTV, ports the PersonalJava platform to the PowerTV set-top operating system software. PowerTV hopes to do that by the end of this year. "[Set-top box] customers want to see Java working on a real platform before they make a commitment to it," said PowerTV's chief technical officer, Ken Morse. "We're going to see what extensions are necessary."