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...expensive--$40 a month for the average household--and no one expects that cable TV on its own will be a big draw, despite clever new features such as a karaoke station. Says Minoru Akimoto, president of Titus Communications, a cable-TV joint venture involving Itochu, Toshiba, Time Warner and U.S. West: ``In Japan, where housewives have the final say on financial matters, they won't like it. They'll say, `You want me to buy a service that gets my husband to watch more TV? He hardly even talks to me as it is. And you want...
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...telephone and cable giants that are building rival versions of the information highway. One of these is Bell Atlantic, which plans to spend $11 billion on fiber-optic cable and other equipment to bring two-way TV to 8 million homes by the year 2000. Another is Time Warner, which is neck and neck with TeleCommunications Inc. in the race to be the nation's largest cable company. Time Warner is teaming with U S West to test its notion of a state-of-the-art system in Orlando, Florida, as part of a $5 billion effort to build what...
...also sow tension and slow progress, because they tend to unite friends and foes alike in potentially uncomfortable situations. Bell Atlantic and U S West are building separate electronic highways, for example, even as the two firms are allied in a project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share secrets with...
...will hold its ground. ``The TV set will continue to be the dominant home consumer appliance,'' declares Tom Jermoluk, president of Silicon Graphics, which built the microchips for the set-top boxes and huge media servers that are being used to shuttle movies to and from households in Time Warner's Florida test. Others say television will soon be passe. ``There is a critical limitation in set-top boxes,'' argues Theodore Waitt, chief executive of Gateway 2000, which pioneered selling PCs by phone. ``The quality of the picture you get just isn't as good for text-based information...