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What's unclear is how effectively the problems have been solved. Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's chief technical officer, acknowledges that it's taken the company longer than expected to work out glitches, but adds that "our new network works. Akron is the real deal." The solution to balky coax networks? Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire. The Akron system and those that follow, says Britt, will run fiber from the head ends to local nodes serving 500 homes apiece...
...nothing else, a smooth presentation. Remote control in hand, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin last week greeted a crowd of skeptical reporters in an Orlando, Florida, hotel ballroom, then pushed the "on" button and, with the help of Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's technology chief, began the first public demonstration of the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- interactive-TV system...
April has come and gone, and those Orlandans are still watching TV the old- fashioned way. "Expectations were way overheated," admits Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's technology chief. In early March, the start of the trial ! was postponed until the fourth quarter of 1994. Some outside observers predict the company will be hard pressed to make that deadline as well...
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