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通过增加将模拟技术向数字格式转化所需的基础设施投资的规模和速度,AT＆T和TCI的480亿美元的合并计划将加速PC和TV的融合。公司合并后将成立一个新的部门,该部门的任务是“重点加速”TCI的有线设施升级,以实现在1999年底为用户提供数字电话、数据、视频服务。分析家说,最终用户更可能看到的是适时开发的数字式电视顶置盒,部分原因是AT＆T将承担TCI的160亿美元债务。通信行业研究公司Telechoice的总经理说:“今天终极用户应该欣喜若狂。这极大推进了家庭高带宽开发研究的时间表。”媒体研究公司的分析家也表示
AT & T and TCI’s $ 48 billion merger plan will accelerate the convergence of PC and TV by increasing the scale and speed of infrastructure investments needed to transform analog technologies into digital formats. The merger will open a new unit with the mission of “focusing on accelerating” TCI’s cable infrastructure upgrades to provide users with digital telephony, data and video services by the end of 1999. Analysts say end-users are more likely to see digital televisions that are developed in due time, in part because of AT & T’s commitment to TCI’s $ 16 billion debt. The general manager of Telechoice, a communications industry research company, said: “Today’s end-users should be overjoyed, driving the timeline for high bandwidth home development research.” Analysts at media research firms also said