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

To: mike.com who wrote (3225)	11/8/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: dwight martin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4748

they would but they wanna hear more gripes from shareholders vbg l

To: mike.com who wrote (3225)	11/9/1998 4:22:00 AM
From: Larry Brew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4748

mike -- << what obsticles remain.>> A big one. The cost of implementing digital t.v. I think some of the major cities that offer the 1 mhz capability through current coax connections may be capable if fox will have the data storage required in place. 1)Each viewer needs to be able to review his player of choice or 2) customize his advertisement on demand. The 1st means an ability to transmit millions of bits information, not simultaneously but on demand. The latter can be done simultaneously with maybe 10 or 15 different profiles. Are you familiar with the 'custom add concept?' It will be the cheapest to implement and should be expected 1st. This could happen by the superbowl in my estimation. Once fiber and digital satellite with internet capabilities are in place the skys the limit. The CEO of CSCO gave a very optimistic outlook of our interactive future. All over digital t.v. He projects video phone for free as part of the basic service. 1st big hurdle is the cost of digital t.v. They start at $7500 and only an estimated 200 were sold so far. Next is the cost of data storage at the transmitting end. Stocks like dd storage and software like orcl will take off then. I think some speculative buying has already started in the dd sector. Too early for me. I expect a bear market at y2k and after these problems get sorted out, it's go baby go! Wish I knew more about the roadblocks from the telecasting end. Larry

To: mike.com who wrote (3225)	11/9/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Stonesouls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4748

What obstacles remain? The inability of management on all sides to decide just what to do with this technology. New technology is appearing every day for Interactive TV. If we do not move soon, we will be the old technology that never really got off the ground. We will go by the wayside, as so many of these companies do. Generally they end up being their own worst enemies, being ruled by emotion, pride and vanity. Which is what I believe is happening with the management of ACTV. FMG