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Cable World, April 7, 2003

PIONEER BEGINS SHIPPING HD BOX TO TIME WARNER

Pioneer Electronics (USA) has become the latest set-top manufacturer to begin shipping an HD box. According to Dan Ward, director of marketing for Pioneer's cable and communications division, the company has begun to fill orders for its Voyager 3510HD box with Time Warner Cable. Ward declined to reveal the number of units Pioneer is contracted to move to the MSO but did say that TWC is offering HD service to the better part of its digital cable subs. Likewise, Pioneer would not discuss pricing of the box, although Ward characterized the 3510HD as "competitively priced." Ward added that the set-top was "pretty beefy in terms of processing capability and memory," and that it can support all 16 ATSC formats, including 720p, 1080i and 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. The box also handles graphics over HD video, including programming descriptions and other meta-data supported by the embedded IPG.

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DISCOVERY STOCKS UP ON MORE AVID HD GADGETS

Discovery Communications is sold on Avid Technology. The programmer has tapped the Avid/DS HD systems to finish and master programs for Discovery HD Theater, a 24-hour all-hi-def channel that launched in 2002. To date, Discovery uses more than 40 different Avid systems in the postproduction of about 115 HD programs, including the quizzically popular Aussie adventure/nature show The Crocodile Hunter. As befits the purchase of new gear, Discovery's HD unit will handle the postproduction of several premiere series in 2003 - including Trading Spaces, Natural History of the Human Baby and Secrets of Hawaii's National Parks - in its new Silver Spring, Md., facility.

P-CUBE BRINGS P2P MONITORING PLATFORM TO JAPAN

The battle to contain peer-to-peer network usage over high-speed Internet connections continues apace, its borders stretching far past the United States. To that end, traffic cop P-Cube has made a pact with Mitsubishi to sell its P2P control system to broadband providers in Japan. In addition to marketing and distributing P-Cube's product, Mitsubishi Corp. will develop a showcase in Tokyo for the express purpose of demonstrating its partner's P2P traffic control and analysis system. P-Cube's platform is in trials with several Japanese operators, a Mitsubishi telecom executive said.

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