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Rogers, my local cable company, announced in 1995 a firm order for (very
expensive) GI Digicipher II set top boxes for delivery starting late
1997.

I am not sure, in my own mind, whether it makes sense to make a major
order for this type of equipment in the absence of a clear end-to-end
approach to digitalization and digital compression accepted by the North
American cable insustry as a whole.  I imagine that the industry will
not reach that point until 1997 (can anyone comment on this?).

In any case I have read that GI itself may be about to abandon its
propriatory Digicipher II compression system for a straight MPEG2
approach.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what is happening?

David Steinberg