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...that of other campus cafés, due mainly to the unsubstantiated fact that all of the VES faculty commute from New York City and they just wouldn’t feel comfortable if they couldn’t pay $5.50 for egg salad. Other entrees include lemon tuna, Cuban pork roll-ups and salads boasting goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes. Forgive a small digression, but why are goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes viewed as delicacies? Have you ever seen a goat? And what is a sun-dried tomato other than a dried up fruit/vegetable/whatever...
...exchange for their help, Fox and DirecTV got options worth as much as 20% of Cuban's new network. For Thompson at Fox, HDNet is a handy "laboratory" to see how high def works, technically and economically. "If you've seen high def, you know it's gorgeous," says Thompson. "But I was skeptical of the financial model. They need to go well beyond 100,000 homes." Cuban says his customer base through DirecTV is growing 10% to 15% a month, and he's working the retail angle hard--getting 1,000 outlets such as those of Circuit City...
...cease by 2006. But with more than half the nation's stations seeking delays, FCC chairman Michael Powell this month went on the offensive (right before a critical broadcasters' meeting), urging networks, broadcasters and equipment makers to rush digital-TV offerings to consumers by 2003. "I agree with Cuban that HDTV is inevitable, but it will take 10 years," predicts Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat's principal analyst for digital TV. The savings of all-digital production will win out, especially because such influential directors as George Lucas have vowed to dump film. "By September 2003, most TV programs will...
...that HDNet is on satellite, Cuban is hoping to hawk his network to cable companies, which reach two-thirds of the nation's viewers. Cox Cable announced in March that it would start delivering high-def shows from the major networks. Comcast launched HDTV last November, while Time Warner Cable offers it in 42 markets, from New York City to Houston...
Home run? That's not the right metaphor for Cuban, who at 6 ft. 2 in. is about the size of a smallish NBA guard. He would probably prefer to think of himself as launching a shot from outside the three-point circle and hitting nothing...