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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Peter Dufault :
> > Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying:
> > > May I ask what is so stupid about WebTv?
> > 
> > You ask this of someone with a predisposition towards 19" screens with
> > .26 or better dot pitch?  I've used computers that are designed for TV
> > output (I love playing Descent on projection TV's 8), and I'm not sure
> > which of the thought of trying to browse the web as it exists on a TV
> > screen or considering what it will become in order to be usable on a
> > TV revolts me more.
> 
> This year's WebTV isnt that important.  We have a battle going on
> in the US over HDTV standards.  Microsoft now has a way of getting
> an installed base of HDTV systems out using the computer industry's
> preferred lower resolution non-interlaced HDTV standard ahead of
> the broadcast industry's preferred interlaced standard.  Plus
> another hardware platform to licence to the consumer electronics
> companies that will run only MS software, and a hardware technology
> to licence to the add-in video manufacturers.
> 

Yeap, I was thinking about that too -- they did lobby to get their
issues thru in the HDTV standard  . I refuse to believe that 
Microsoft was able to forsee the combination of   WebTV and HDTV however
it is the sort of tactic that someone like Bill Gates would probably
love to deploy 8)

What I am wondering about is if the Broadcast industry is going to keep
talking about HDTV  8)

	Enjoy,
	Amancio