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To: DiViT who wrote (37348)	11/19/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

From Marks Monday memo...... A chart nearby showed estimated penetration of various cable technologies. By the end of 1998, for example, when there will be 65.8 million cable households, there will be 1.1 million with digital cable and 400,000 with cable modems. By the end of 2005, 68.6 million cable homes will include 45.3 million receiving digitally and 22.4 million with cable modems. WOW! In the third part of the "Arts & Leisure" section of Sunday's New York Times is an article headlined "For Every Home, A Video Theater." It's by Rob Sabin, credited with being a contributing editor for Stereo Review's Sound and Vision magazine. The article takes the form of a series of tips. Tip one is "Get a DVD player." Tip two is "Go with a Dolby Digital sound system." Here are portions of tip three: "Don't fret about digital television -- yet. The buzz is on about the new DTV broadcasts, particularly about high-definition television. You haven't really seen your favorite news anchor until you've seen every hair on his well-coiffed head from the comfort of your den. HDTV is THAT sharp." "The models just hitting stores are too expensive ($7,000 and up) for average consumers and still in their technological infancy." "One option is to pay a premium today for an HDTV-ready television to which a digital television tuner can be added later. But there is no guarantee such a 'separates' approach will offer the same functionality as an integrated HDTV available in 2001. "So the best advice for most of us is to wait on HD." "And, by the way, the television you buy today will never go dark: even after broadcasters turn off their analog channels some time beyond 2006, a set-top tuner will permit the viewing of digital programming until the set itself dies."................ Panasonic is opening a Digital Concepts Center in Cupertino, California, as a division of Princeton-based Panasonic Technologies Inc.........