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Topic: TV Over IP Beats Digital Home Hype by a Mile

From Bill's section: "Comes the fall and I wander the back yard, kicking through tall weeds, looking for weapons of grass destruction that I've left out and about. Once found, they get sanded, wire-brushed, and painted so they can come back again another year. We do the same thing with technology. I think I first saw Intel's Digital Home concept back in the 1980s as Bob Vila, tinkered around a This Old House episode. It reappeared in the 1990s on HomeTime: "In 1990 we saw a hypothetical home of the future drawn for a story in Newsweek. …"

From Alice's Section: "I could literally feel the light bulb shining over someone's head at Microsoft when the company suddenly seemed to awaken and realize that instead of pouring billions into cable content, like the rapidly sinking MSNBC cable-TV channel, it's better to sell the software that gets that content to the people. Lose money = bad. Sell software = good. That's the basic thinking behind a brand-new deal announced by SBC Communications and Microsoft, in which SBC will pay Microsoft $400 million over 10 years to use its Microsoft Television over IP technology to provide on-demand TV using high-speed 20-25-Mbps fiber-optic lines......"

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