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To: Stewart Walton who wrote (77122)	11/9/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Now this is more like it. Here comes 'Coney'. Stewart: As if you haven't had enough of this PC/TV thing,here is yet another article on the subject.I think I like this idea better that the other way around,ie TV/PC. ==================================== Philips helps PCs become TVs By Jim Davis Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 9, 1998, 12:45 p.m. PT Philips Semiconductors unveiled a design for digital TV circuit boards that allows PC manufacturers to ship what are, in essence, "low cost" digital televisions. Philips is offering PC makers a design called the "Coney" board which takes digital TV signals sent by broadcasters and helps convert the signals for display on a PC. The cards are used in conjunction with a Pentium II-based computer, which does the bulk of the translating of the digital TV signal into formats understood by PCs. Broadcasters are just starting to send out high-definition digital TV (HDTV) signals, which offer significantly greater picture clarity and sound quality than current analog TVs allow. But with the cost of a stand-alone HDTV costing anywhere from $5,000 on up, Intel, for one, is holding out the hope that the market for DTV receiver cards will expand the role of PCs as a point of technological convergence. "PCs will play a significant role as a key platform for DTV," asserted Mike Richmond, business unit manager, Intel's Broadcast Products Division, in a statement. "The Philips reference design gives PC [PC makers] and after-market suppliers an early entry into the emerging DTV market and makes low-cost DTV on PCs a practical reality for consumers."....... news.com