Windows Vista provides a means to decipher tomorrow's television, internet and telephone signals. Imagine watching a NEW movie on your HDTV with ten times the clarity of the best theater screen. How about downloading a new album, in seconds, with as many A/V tracks as the studio which recorded it! Or best of all, imagine watching and hearing the person you're calling with the clarity of vision and sound allowed by super-high-bandwidth data flow.

       Verizon has spent billions pulling optical fibers to homes across America. Fibers provide data at thousands of times the bandwidth of home cable, DSL, wireless and satellite servers. With greater precision of data encryption plus overlaid digital video, voice and data signals, fibers can provide untold thousands of global "channels." Windows Vista was designed to tune them. That's probably why Microsoft named it Vista, meaning "a distant view through an opening."

       Intel and AMD have introduced dual-core processors for home computers capable of doing staggering numbers of tasks simultaneously. Aside from routine chores, they can drive massive video cards linked directly to HDTV's at rates much greater than TV signals plus provide multi-trac audio at affordable prices. I built the Intel Extreme, dual-core, fiber optic adept, Vista driven HDTV "Comptuner" used to convey this message for $600.