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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maya who wrote (37355)	11/20/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Old CUBE/Zenith press releases............ C-Cube Powers Zenith Settop for GTE Media Ventures New Digital Video Entertainment Services c-cube.com Excerpt: <<About the Zenith Digital Settop Model Z1 2C Zenith has licensed C-Cube's settop design to produce a modular settop box that can cost-effectively interface with multiple networks including MMDS, HFC, DBS and FTTC. This digital settop box from Zenith, (Model Z12C) is currently in production and delivers crisp digital pictures and "Dolby Digital" (AC-3) CD-quality sound, as well as increased channel capability and interactive services. The box's flexible design uses interchangeable network interface modules for various kinds of digital video networks, including wireless and wired cable systems and satellite systems. The Honolulu launch is part of Zenith's contract to supply digital settops to americast, a partnership of BellSouth, Ameritech Corporation, GTE Corp., Southern New England Telephone (SNET) and The Walt Disney Company. Americast was created to develop and market the next generation in home entertainment. >> C-Cube Powers Zenith Settop for BellSouth Home Entertainment Services c-cube.com Excerpt: <C-Cube has combined the system-level settop expertise formerly at its wholly owned subsidiary, DiviCom Inc., with C-Cube's digital video silicon developments to form C-Cube's Consumer Network Products Division (CNP). This new division focuses on the revenue-generating digital video applications that drive digital networks worldwide. By offering settop manufacturers and content providers multi-tiered silicon and design solutions, C-Cube's CNP Division can help companies such as Zenith and Americast partners to effectively address complex consumer network applications. "By integrating 'best of breed' technologies from C-Cube and others into our line of advanced broadband digital settop and network products, we're helping our customers usher in the digital age," said Allen Brown, division vice president of the Zenith Network Systems Digital Media Group. "Close collaboration, cooperation and teamwork over the past 12 months have been essential to support the November launch of the new Bell South all-digital entertainment service." >> These excerpts are from today's press release. "Zenith Network Systems"..... The boxes support DBS, digital cable, MMDS.......... Sounds like the CUBE box to me. <<Charles J. Sindelar, vice president, Zenith Network Systems, said the STAR TV agreement "reaffirms News Corp.'s strong support for Zenith digital technology" targeted to world markets.>> <<The set top boxes being deployed by STAR TV is part of the Zenith family of World Box products that support direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems and can also accommodate alternative transmission methods, including digital cable, terrestrial and MMDS. >>