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To: accountclosed who wrote (1201)	11/9/1998 3:57:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2025

Here's an unfortunate case of wasted technological development efforts. news.com "The HDTV works with a different signal so nobody with a TV today would really notice anything,'' Reitmeier said. But once the new digital sets catch on, Reitmeier said, the sets will become more useful. For example, people watching sports programs will be able to look up statistics on their sets. People watching educational programs will be able to download supplemental materials from the Internet through their sets. The screens will be larger and colors more brilliant, providing movie-quality viewing, he said. Gee that's really worth getting a $5000 TV instead of a $500 one. Why not buy two $2000 heavy duty PCs instead and leap into the digital universe? <gg> It puzzles me how these non-starters ever get birthed, Divx being another example coming readily to mind. All that engineering effort totally wasted.