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

To: JackSkip who wrote (3648)	5/16/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: Mike Fredericks	Respond to of 13157

Jack- Could you tell me which press release you got this info from? "While patented, Alworth says, the ACTV technology is written in the basic C programming language, which his company can easily rewrite to work in Java or Windows CE. In addition, ACTV previously developed an analog version of its service but has since scrapped that approach to concentrate on the digital cable delivery infrastructure. Someone here asked a couple weeks ago whether IATV had an analog product to compete with Wink, and my answer was "who cares" because analog is dead. But if for some reason digital becomes delayed (not gonna happen) there is the contingency of falling back on the Analog product... if it looks like Wink is going to make zillions in the Analog interactive advertising biz, IATV could put a product together in short order to compete (it was "previously developed," not "previously designed.") Porting C to Java should be straightforward, but it really depends on how low-level they got in the C code. I'm assuming not too low-level, but you never can tell. I would have thought that they had ported it already; but obviously the cable boxes with "IATV Inside" don't require Java for the product to work. What OS are the non-Win CE boxes running? -Fred