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To: art slott who wrote (1103)	4/1/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Champolion	Respond to of 13157

Different Takes On Wedding TV To Web Have you read this piece before? __________ Champolion NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1999 MAR 1 (NB) -- By Grant Buckler, Newsbytes. Interest is growing in somehow combining television with the Internet, but not everyone is taking the same approach. ACTV, Inc. [NASDAQ:IATV] has introduced HyperTV, which will synchronize "pushed" World Wide Web content with television programming, while US West Inc. [NYSE:USW] has signed with Network Computer Inc., to turn TV sets into Internet access devices. US West announced that it will begin trials by mid-year of AtTV, which will use a Network Computer set-top box to let consumers browse the Web and deal with e-mail using their TV sets as displays. The service will also make it possible to make and receive telephone calls. The AtTV service will require a telephone line for phone calls and Internet access, US West spokesman Jon Lentz told Newsbytes, and will be able to work with either a 56 kilobits-per-second modem or US West' s Megabit Service digital subscriber line (DSL) offering. The set- top box from Network Computer will come equipped with an infrared keyboard as well as a remote control. Pricing hasn't been determined -- that is one of the issues to be worked out in the trials US West will hold in "at least a couple" of major centers in its territory later this year, Lentz said -- but it will be competitive with other Internet service providers (ISPs). Due for commercial availability late in 1999, the offering will be the first of Network Computer's technology in the United States, Lentz added. The company is already working with cable-television firms and others in Europe and Asia, especially in the United Kingdom where three major cable operators -- Telewest Communications, Cable and Wireless Communications, and NTL Communications -- offer the service. ACTV's HyperTV can handle the display of Internet content on a TV set too, said Mike Rosen, a spokesman for ACTV, but the main focus of HyperTV today is synchronizing Internet content to what is on the TV screen. ACTV is launching HyperTV, which can stream uniform resource locators (URLs) and other Internet content over a video signal or a separate Internet connection, into the entertainment market. An example might be a baseball game. When you turn on the game, you would also start up your PC and log on to the Web, where you would enter a Web address to contact the HyperTV service. Then, as you watched the game, HyperTV would automatically send related content to your PC. For instance, Rosen said, when one team sent in a new pitcher, while the TV station showed the pitcher warming up you might be able to see his season statistics and a recent newspaper article about him on your computer screen. When the game breaks for commercials, HyperTV would provide Web content about the products and services being advertised. ACTV believes Web-TV convergence is a major market today and will grow further. However, Jupiter Communications, at whose New York conference both new offerings will be touted today, released a study this morning saying few major electronic-commerce players are prepared for the coming growth in television set-top devices. According to Jupiter, such devices will bring a "sit-back" interactive experience for mass- market households, many of which still lack personal computers. Reported By Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com

To: art slott who wrote (1103)	4/1/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: Skip Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13157

I know that I am beating a dead horse, but thought you all might want to see this. Streaming URL's is worth a fortune, LAUNCH-US.COM **************************** REALNETWORKS (Click here for quote.) RealNetworks (RNWK) streamed up 35 11/16 to 157 7/8 in the wake of the valuation placed on Broadcast.com (BCST), and a price target of 200 set by a Lehman Brothers analyst. Pink_Floyd, mymoni and marylang spent the morning discussing the possibility of RNWK being acquired. "It seems to me that RNWK won't accept a buy-out offer unless their share of the streaming market drops substantially below the 85% they currently hold," Pink_Floyd told mymoni. "Right now, RNWK doesn't appear to be losing market share, but this Internet game is still too young to be certain RNWK can survive all alone. My gut feeling is that they will survive and prosper all alone without being bought. The talk should be about what companies Real can buy, rather than who will buy Real. But we'll see." See full message or respond to message.