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To: JackSkip who wrote (4243)	1/29/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: art slott	Respond to of 4748

After another reading I take the following paragraph to mean its available to the 1.5 min. homes that have a digital box. >Over the long term, though, interactive TV may offer the most intriguing possibilities. Right now, the Prevue channel offers interactive service in about 1.5 million homes. Renamed TV Guide Interactive, it costs between $4.95 and $10 per month and soups up a viewer's existing cable offerings by tapping into digital-TV broadcasts with a high-tech set-top box.<

To: JackSkip who wrote (4243)	1/30/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: JackSkip	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4748

This is a long but very interesting article about Paul Allen and Vulcan Ventures. Get a beer, and check it out!!! William Savoy: Wiring Paul Allen's World Contrary to popular belief, Paul Allen's multibillion dollar plunge into cable in 1998 was far from sudden. As the Microsoft Corp. co-founder has nurtured and invested in his vision of a "wired world" over the past decade, marrying microprocessing power to connectivity in the home, he has always seen cable operators' "last mile" of coaxial cable into millions of homes as a key element, says William Savoy, president of Allen's investment arm Vulcan Ventures......more broadcastingcable.com