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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (18081)	5/23/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Tom Tallant	Respond to of 41369

Morning Chin, Here's another interesting article: zdii.com Tom

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (18081)	5/23/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: JB2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

Chin: My point is that there are an increasing number of households making the internet part of their lives, and whether they know it or not, they do not require pc's! Even a $100 pc is not as inexpensive or as convenient as a $79 internet receiver. I believe the settop boxes have yet to take off because Microsoft bought the main sales channel and has deliberately suppressed it. You make my point: you live in Silicon Valley and did not even know these boxes have been on the market for years now! The public's ignorance of this is the result of a concerted effort by Dell and all the pc makers who have a vested interest in making the public believe they must sit hunched over a desktop a few inches from an expensive glowing monitor in order to surf the web, send and recieve email, trade online, etc. You can go down to your nearby video/audio store, get a nice 21 inch tv monitor ( with an s-video jack in the back preferably) along with a $79 internet receiver, hook the receiver up to a phone or cable line on one end, and the monitor on the other, and voila: Put your feet up, sit eight or ten feet away in a comfy chair, and write your SI messages using your wireless keyboard and mouse. Check it out, you will never go back to surfing the web hunched over a pc after trying it this way! At least that is what good ole AOL exec's are betting--get ready for their sales campaign this summer. Meanwhile you can check out webtv.com for more info. They only have a few million subscribers. As for wireless internet access: Go to Investrade.com and you can get yourself a free "smart phone" that offers the features of a palm pilot, as far as accessing the web remotely from a handheld device, AND the smart phone also, unlike the pricey palm pilots, allows you to make phone calls and place online trades, monitor online accounts, etc. all from the one device. The offer from Investrade runs thru June 30 and is free only IF you open a $10K account. Otherwise you have to pay for it...