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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (39243)	3/12/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

1400x900 resolution. That's not quite good enough for big screen projection, is it?

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (39243)	3/12/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

German Consortium backs Open TV(No Kirch, Deutsche TeleKom, or Bartelsman)............... inside-cable.co.uk NEW GERMAN CONSORTIUM BACKS OPENTV Or use your browser BACK button to return to the previous page. Nineteen companies working in the German interactive TV market have come together to form FUN, a new platform for digital TV in Germany. The intention of the alliance between media and technology companies is to ensure competition, diversity, freedom of opinion and unimpeded access for all market participants in digital television. The centre-piece of FUN is the definition of a technology platform as the basis for the distribution and use of digital programmes. OpenTV is one of the partners and its operating system lies at the heart of the initiative which is also being backed by broadcasters ARD and ZDF. The following are the founding members of the organisation: ARD-Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen Convergence Integrated Media GmbH EchoStar International Corporation EUROSPORT FERNSEH GmbH Galaxis Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH GI/FUBA Cummunications GmbH GEMPLUS GmbH idee Medien Institut der Rundfunktechnik GmbH Stefan Kleine-Erfkamp LM Medienberatung NetStage GmbH OpenTV, Europe SCIP GmbH TV MOVIE ONLINE TechiSat Digital GmbH Thyssen Multimedia GmbH Mediagate GmbH MME-Me, Myself & Eye Film- und TV-Produktions-GmbH Notably missing from the list are existing digital TV players in the German market - both cable and satellite.