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To: Stoctrash who wrote (38883)	2/9/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

GI is moving digital settops. From their earnings report; (by the way, they think they lost the PrimeStar business)......... newsalert.com DIGITAL UNIT SHIPMENTS GREW 26% SEQUENTIALLY Digital set-top terminal shipments for the fourth quarter grew 26% to 730,000 units from 580,000 units in the third quarter of 1998. Year over year, digital shipments more than tripled from the 200,000 units shipped in the fourth quarter of 1997. During the quarter, General Instrument launched 61 digital headends bringing the number of active digital headends to more than 700. From the time of product introduction in late 1996 to the end of the fourth quarter, General Instrument shipped more than 2.7 million interactive digital set-tops. "Digital shipment growth continues to be driven by the attractiveness of the digital business case for our customers," said Breen. The DCT-2000 set-top terminal was commercially deployed during the fourth quarter. The DCT-2000 is a more advanced interactive digital terminal, which incorporates a faster processor, more memory and improved graphics. Shipments of 365,000 of these terminals were well ahead of company expectations. During the quarter, General Instrument's Taiwan facility manufactured the first pre-production DCT-5000+ advanced interactive digital terminals and added an additional digital manufacturing line. The DCT-5000+ is built around a 175MHz RISC processor and a high <<snip>> Yesterday, General Instrument and MediaOne announced an expanded agreement, which will result in the deployment of GI's technology in markets serving approximately two million' subscribers. Initially employing GI's DCT-2000 interactive digital set-top terminals, MediaOne plans to offer digital services in selected markets beyond its initial Detroit deployment beginning in the second quarter of 1998. GI will work with MediaOne to create a digital platform incorporating MediaOne's open architecture specifications.