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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (3047)	3/10/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Mike, I disagree with your comments about streaming media. Today with a relatively slow 28.8 modem, the audio quality is about the equivalent of an AM radio, a vast improvement in sound quality over the last 2 years. This sound quality is more than sufficient for voice, webcasting, and music. Granted it is not CD quality, but neither is MP3. The big advantage of streaming media is that a webcast begins almost immediately after clickthrough (there is about a 5 second buffering period). Compare that to a MP3 download, which even with a 56K modem takes about the same length of time as the song or audio file to play. Instantaneous gratification? Only perhaps with a cable modem. Streaming media is revolutionizing the radio industry. My wife recently read "Autobiography of a Geisha" and asked me to tape the author's interview with Terri Gross on NPR last week. I forgot to do it. However I was able to go to the All Things Considered website and pull up the interview from the archives. It sounded exactly like the radio show, except that we could pause it at any time. She was amazed! Broadcast.com recently won a NASDAQ contract to broadcast quarterly conference calls with security analysts for NASDAQ 100 companies. Say goodbye to illegal selective disclosure of material information. If you need further convincing that streaming media are no joke, have a look at the following stock charts: tscn.com or tscn.com [disclosure: I am an investor in both RNWK and BCST] I will send you privately my watch list of other net music companies so as not to clutter the thread. Sam