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To: John Rieman who wrote (37819)	12/15/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

re: GI Switches Chips For DCT-5000. Could just as easily change their minds about the decoder too. Hopeful Memo to GI: Hey!, how about a MPEG decoder integrated with a Sparc CPU to reduce cost further?

To: John Rieman who wrote (37819)	12/15/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

The GI box features a Visa slot; CUBE's new AVia chip set also has a Visa card interface......... When available, the DCT-5000 will give consumers another way to burn money a little faster by inserting their Visa cards into a smart card slot on the front of the box. By using the interface between the set-top and the Visa Open Platform, Visa International customers would be able to transact a number of commerce applications. "They (Visa) want to push more of the applications for a smart card by downloading value, downloading coupons," said Kanouff. "You log on through some interactive service on the market and you can download that to the Visa smart card and go and use it at a checkout at the store."