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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mike.com who wrote (1633)	4/10/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Skip Jack	Respond to of 13157

I woke up this morning in a panic, and ran down stairs as fast as I could, sat down, dialed in, checked my portfolio and THANK YOU ACTV GOD the stock really is $20.00 a share. Somehow I had convinced myself that has all been a dream……………………………….. Still not selling a share, not one measly share!!!!

To: mike.com who wrote (1633)	4/10/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: SteelerStu	Respond to of 13157

All I have to say is I bought a measly 300 shares right before the close and they had to split it into two orders -- 100 and 200 -- whats a matter the MM's cant handle a 300 share order at market .......

To: mike.com who wrote (1633)	4/10/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: Skip Jack	Respond to of 13157

I am not sure if we will launch HyperTV with a sports venue or something like Oxygen Media, but it is becoming more evident that we are very close to some type of launch announcement. ********************************************** 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.

To: mike.com who wrote (1633)	4/10/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: dwight martin	Respond to of 13157

1. Thanks to whoever it was that mentioned this company in another thread in December '97 or January '98. It might have been Art. I looked at it, found Individualized TV interesting, and bought in at sub-$2 prices. SO, I have not felt the pain of the true longs ufferers; BUT I am very glad to be present at their vindication. 2. I ended up selling 25% of my holdings at 18, because I needed the $$; the remainder I will not consider selling below about 50 or 60 (and that number is increasing daily) unless the picture changes. It has been said that IATV's performance is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I believe it. 3. I can't believe how strong Friday was. Twice it started down and twice it ran into a horde of buyers who quickly reversed the trend, and it ended up closing near the day's high in a mixed market on a profit-taking Friday. 4. Check out MVIS (there is an SI thread), some of whose warrants I hold. They have, IMO, the most practical, cost-effective, and highest-fidelity solution to the display of visual information. Now a development-stage firm funded primarily by contracts with the US Navy and Army and with US and foreign aerospace contractors, but set to go commercial in 2000. Not dirt cheap like IATV was, and plenty risky, but the range and power of the applications of their technology in the broadband world that is almost on us still give me goose bumps and stoke the fires of greed. I could go on for pages, but has anyone ever read Snow Crash by Stephenson?