Now that the FCC let the Telcos/Cable kill ISPs Here's what we can expect. Pay-per-view!!! = $$$$$$$$$ ================================================== TV GUIDE MAY SIGN ACCORD WITH TCI ON DIGITAL SERVICE Issue: Digital TV In a deal closed yesterday, News Corp. sold TV Guide Magazine to United Video, a Tulsa Oklahoma company controlled by TCI. With the deal, United Video has changed its name to TV Guide and is expected to announce a 10-year deal with TCI to offer interactive digital service to TCI digital cable-TV subscribers. The service, called TV Guide Interactive, bundles content to subscribers: "offers a supplementary package to subscribers including more channels, extended pay-per-view options, and even music transmission," Bounds reports. The proposed deal is "broad in scope by cable-industry standards" and would attract other cable-TV operators. TV Guide Interactive is used by 1.5 million subscribers now, and will grow to 4.5 million when the TCI deal is closed. [SOURCE: Wall Street Journal (B9), AUTHOR: Wendy Bounds] <http://wsj.com/> ~~Benton UPFORGRABS -- P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=etech http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1998-11.asp Common sense is not common, and conventional wisdom is not wisdom. But at least you can have conventional sense. ~~ Daily Whale
