Cover Story Lofty concepts Datacasting puts broadband on the airwaves. —by Maury Wright, Executive Editor

Features
Squeeze plays
The tangled tale of Internet video compression.
—by Erik Sherman, Contributing Editor

Too many flavors
How many DVD formats do we need? We explore DVD-R, -RW, +RW, RAM, ROM, Audio, and more.
—by Paul G Schreier, Contributing Editor

Reformation
Chip makers are recasting themselves to harvest post-PC riches. Watch them evolve.
—by David Cheung

Editor’s Letter
Reality check
—by Maury Wright, Executive Editor

Feed us
—by Matthew Miller, Managing Editor

Guest Opinions
Way ahead
—by Jeff Hultman, VirtuaLan

Untied
—by Mark Goode, MobileStar

Waste not
—by Marty Cooper, ArrayComm

The next reality
—by Kimberly Kleber, Qualcomm

Gear
New Products for work and play

Inside the digital den
Garbled gab
Voices carry (or not) with Internet telephony
—by Matthew Miller, Managing Editor

Random Packets
They said it

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