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To: BillyG who wrote (35769)	9/8/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: David Fortner	Respond to of 50808

I know about DV from a users' standpoint. I have a Canon XL1, and edit with Radius EditDV and Adobe Premiere. I also have some stock in the poor little company called Radius. Their DV products keep winning awards, but their stock price keeps tanking. I believe that DV will continue to be the codec of choice for digital camcorders. It provides a higher "editable" resolution than MPEG, it's much cheaper to setup a NLE studio, and it definately seems to be where the big boys (Canon, Sony, Panasonic, JVC) are staking their future. I don't think the one MPEG camcorder that I know of (Hitachi?) is doing nearly as well as the DV camcorders. CUBE now seems to be offering an important feature: a quick transition from edit platform to delivery platform.

To: BillyG who wrote (35769)	9/10/1998 1:10:00 PM
From: George Thompson	Respond to of 50808

Jon, Billy, It seems that the DV format is one that we use for recording and editing while the MPEG-2 is for local distribution. We will distribute in one format and allow the affiliates to convert to whatever format their heart desires. Expect to see a lot of upconverted programming until more DV and HDTV equipment becomes available. Formats are up in the air as to what will be offered and at what time. Net and local news in HDTV wide screen is ridiculous. Lot of wasted bandwidth. Most likely several "channels" could be available during the news hours. Say, WNBC, MSNBC, CNBC. You have an unbelievable amount of possibilities with Network distribution and Local distribution. Remember that it is only the local stations that are restricted to 6MHz. Net distribution will take up a whole transponder. Later, GEorge