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To: BillyG who wrote (38243)	1/15/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

VOD. Where will it come from??????????????????????????? To many cable operators, such offerings represent a much lower level version of VOD than cable will offer, ensuring that the cable version has a distinct attraction for cable customers over what they can get from general access on the Web. As Chiddix notes, video delivery via MPEG-2 has it all over any attempts to do the same thing in pure IP (Internet protocol) mode, making it unlikely that video streamed over cable data channels will be any match commercially for MPEG-streamed content. "MPEG has a very low overhead packet structure that is optimized for the type of networks we operate," he says. But what if MPEG becomes a commonly available framing mechanism for any IP video or multimedia content on the Web, accessible to subscribers from local storage centers where content of all types is collected and reformatted to MPEG for delivery to customers? Would such technology, using centralized computing to deliver Internet content directly to the TV set as if it were a PC monitor, significantly alter the way the cable industry invests in and develops not only VOD but the set-top platforms that go with such services? more............................... cedmagazine.com