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Microcap & Penny Stocks : IATV - ACTV Interactive Television -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: art slott who wrote (3059)	10/11/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Donald Skjold	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4748

Art: I sure do hope we have basketball this year! My season tickets are already bought and paid for, and I doubt I'll get my money back, they'll just apply it to next season. You have been around on this stock longer than I have, so let me get a little opinion back from you and others on a few points. JMO, and ONLY my opinion: I have come to believe that sports will certainly be a major application for interactivity, but not the only application, and certainly not the easiest to implement. I have enumerated some of the other ways interactive TV can be profitably put to use, so I won't belabor the point here. The key, again IMO only, is the laying of the digital "highway", not particularly the sports roll-out(s). Once the highway is in place, and sufficient numbers of subscribers are hooked up, then I think we will see some commercial application of interactive TV. And as I said once before, it will then be "Katy, bar the door". I too have followed the (non)-news about the sports roll-outs, and figured that maybe Northern California might one day be targeted, but doubted that Sacramento would be in the first wave. When it was announced that digital TV has come to Sacramento (almost, anyway), it dawned on me sports isn't the only game in town. Other applications will work just as well...maybe better. The most encouraging sign is that the demand for digital is there. Most people subscribing for digital don't even know about interactivity right now, and I want to be there when Liberty Programming tells them about it. Regards, DS