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To: Nimbus who wrote (6411)	1/8/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Goodboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

I so stupid I know understand wha you say. I stupid for even continuing to post to you. Silly old Mediahawk with a real time OS could NNNEEVVVVEEERRR run a fancy shmancy application like a database. Wow, who comes up with stuff like that? Software companies? Doesn't CCUR work with software companies that develop for their platform? Must be rocket science to write a database that can search out programming or clips. Those silly boys over at Prasara or any one of the folks in the SFA developers program being funded by Paul Allen or others could never think of such a difficult application and write it to run on a non-sun or SGI platform You are a joke. As your predictions of a year ago make you look like a joke today, your current ones will also make you look just as wrong tommorow. Please sell your CCUR stock and move on since all us suckers will pay you $4. Go buy some Oracle or SGI stock since they will dominate this business. OOPs, I forgot, you already know that VOD is so hard that it won't be viable or in commercial deployment until the end of 1999. Well, well we shall see about that. Do you really want to look as silly in 1999 as you have in 1998. I think I have wasted enough time posting to you. Facts speak lounder than cluesless opinions based on press releases and reporters.

To: Nimbus who wrote (6411)	1/8/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

This is my understanding, so it's very possible that I'm wrong. The CCUR Mediahawk manages the streams of video being sent from the cable head end to the customer's set top box. The video database on the Mediahawk will not be used to assimilate clips of video for presentation to the user/customer. Finished video, whether they be movies, TV programs, etc. will be on, or moved to, the the Mediahawk so that the customer can have an interactive experience with that video. The Mediahawk is NOT a video database system in the manner in which you described. The Mediahawk will not do the actual accumulation of video clips to compile and present to the customer on demand. IF, and I believe it's a big if initially, the option is available for customers to enter an option like you suggest(all the touchdowns scored by the Packers this year), that would be done on an external database (like ORCL) and the resulting video compilation would be sent to the Mediahawk, where the customer can then use the VCR like functions: stop, ffwd, rewind, pause, etc. The Mediahawk will also be auditing the user/customer's actions and submitting data to the billing system of the cable company. The Mediahawk will manage all the "camera ready" video that's been chosen by customers, but will not be compiling video clips to assemble into a finished product.