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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41408)	5/22/1999 11:03:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Pace, Nokia....................................... multichannel.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pace Micro Uses C-Cube Silicon London -- Pace Micro Technology plc will use C-Cube Microsystems Inc.'s "AviA" silicon technology in its digital-cable set-top boxes for the United Kingdom. Pace provides set-tops to the top three U.K. cable operators -- Cable & Wireless Communications, NTL Inc. and Telewest Communications plc -- which will account for about 90 percent of the market's digital boxes. The C-Cube silicon solution will support two-way networking for delivery of interactive services such as e-commerce over the television. Digital cable is expected to begin launching in the United Kingdom during the second half of this year *************************************************************** Nokia Launches New Set-Tops Irving, Texas -- Nokia Inc.'s Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals launched its newest digital set-top boxes -- the "Mediamaster 9850T" for ONdigital and terrestrial services in the United Kingdom, and the "Mediamaster 9800S" for direct-broadcast satellite services. The company also introduced its digital-cable receiver, featuring QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) demodulation, software upgradeability over the cable transport stream, a built-in modem and two smart-card readers. In addition, Nokia said it has joined the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum, the cross-industry group of telecommunications, broadcasting, computer-industry and consumer-electronics companies defining protocols for HTML-based (HyperText Markup Language) enhanced television.