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To: Terry W Weaver who wrote (8217)	5/8/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Lee Konkel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Terry, <<Is ED saying (between the lines) Ampex has some unannounced streaming software/hardware combo that will make the video/audio presentation significantly more palatable and any further quality gain will come with bandwidth?>> Very good question! Back to the April 26 letter. "Since my letter of last year there has been a key market development that makes the time for Internet video, if not now, then very soon indeed. This development is the dramatic growth in streaming video software. Ampex and other video companies have used streaming in video applications for many years. The technique has now been adapted for the Internet, which began its life as a text-based network. The addition of a graphical layer to the Internet created the world wide web and gave the technology much wider appeal. The arrival of streaming video could well be the next advance that dramatically broadens Internet usage. The required software is available from various suppliers and the versions offered by two companies in particular, Real Networks and Microsoft, are available to millions of PC users now, and more downloads are occurring everyday." So, does this mean that Ampex with their expertise in the hardware end of streaming video is poised to come to market with "IT" (per Ed Perry)? A hardware/software combination of some sort with the above mentioned players??? I certainly agree that to have streaming video more widely accepted, better reception must be made available on the user side - somehow. Lee