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To: Jym who wrote (491)	5/22/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: DEER HUNTER	Respond to of 1149

not by antenna Jym...... non the less.... 'it' will eventually prove to be huge anyway. dh

To: Jym who wrote (491)	5/22/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: doormouse	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1149

Jym, The device has nothing to do with HDTV. Viewing HDTV a HDTV grade video monitor. As important, it requires production companies to choose to finance, and broadcasters to devote their spectrum space to transmit, HDTV rather than conventional programming, as the two are incompatible. There is no near-term move afoot amongst production companies to finance such HDTV productions; certainly no rush on the part of broadcasters to carry HDTV and thus limit their reach to the few hundred folks who possess the required receiver/monitor. The HAUP device does not "bring TV through the Internet." It simply allows a user to place a "conventional" TV window onto their PC monitors --- the source being an antenna jack on the card that must be connected to cable or antenna (just like a TV receiver). I believe folks are less than thrilled about being able to "watch TV" or "listen to FM" with their computers. This application is akin to using a bright white screen as a night-light. <G> The interesting application of the HAUP (and ATI, and,,,) boards, however, allows content to be carried in databroadcasts. WavePhore, however, has demonstrated there to be little-to-no market interest in this (its stock languishes at $7, five years into its game and a year following its inclusion in Win98/IE). WavePhore uses the Vertical Blanking Interval of a conventional TV network -- in its case, PBS --- to carry its one-way databroadcast at about 10K bits/second. HAUP (and others) have made decent decoder boards for VBI for years, yet have not achieved anything approaching ubiquity. A digital board, such as underpinned the Business Week bruhaha, goes nowhere until broadcasters devote their prized spectrum to digital broadcasting. There's no 1/2 way house. I hope that clarifies what this is and is not about. .k1b0