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To: John Rieman who wrote (39578)	4/2/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 50808

Re; Intel's CPU is finally in a settop box.................. Boy did that take a lot of work and time. OT; Don't think that the I/O bottleneck is holding digital video back but for those interested here is a post from someone who knows I/O as well as anyone..............This post shows how network bandwidth is evolving so much faster than silicon..... Message 8667409.

To: John Rieman who wrote (39578)	4/6/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

re: Intel's CPU is finally in a settop box. "Pacific Convergence Corp (PCC), the digital multimedia joint venture between Richard Li's Pacific Century Group and chip-maker Intel Corp" I didn't make much of this at first. Last night I got my April issue of Wired. They did an in depth on this Richard Li fellow. It's well worth the read. Li started StarTV in Asia on a $65 million loan from his dad. He sold it to Rupert Murdoch for $900Mil. He's now bringing broadband to China with the proceeds. The article says he's $25mil into it so far and Intel has put in $10mil. StarTV was Satellite broadcast only. Problem was, that most couldn't afford the dish. Then somebody in the village figured out they could by a dish, run a cable to their neighbors and charge a small fee. Basically a cable headend. StarTV figured, heck why not let them create these private headends, keep track of them and count the eyeballs for ad revenue. He's going try to do the same with broadband. Interesting tidbits from the article: - 65% of population in China has a TV - 3 out of 100 houses in China has a phone. - China's inter(intra?)net is behind a huge firewall. - The movie 10 was StarTV killer app. Once that was broadcast everyone had to have StarTV. - MTV cause the teenagers to tear holes in their jeans and spike their hair. The soap opera Santa Barbara caused a ruckus umong the local polititions, not because of all the Sim Sex, but because of the opening where they show all those big Santa Barbara house with swimming pools. The local Socialist Government had been saying that the capitalist have been lying about all those people in capitalists countries having big houses with swimming pools...