51.   Cable operators have only just begun, in small pockets, to transmit digital signals.

52.   C-Cube makes chips used to translate digital video signals into television images.

53.   Companies are forming alliances to share the cost of developing and deploying digital networks and consumer equipment to receive digital TV signals, called decoders.

54.   Computer manufacturers, including Intel, are hoping to get a piece of the action as broadcasters begin transmitting digital signals beginning next fall.

55.   Converting to digital signals, they now say, will be hugely expensive and slow.

56.   Crystal and other digital signal processor makers have lowered the cost of the chips by using mass-production manufacturing techniques.

57.   Dallas-based Texas Instruments sold the software unit as part of its plan to focus on digital signal processing systems.

58.   Dallas-based TI has become the undisputed market leader in digital signal processor chips.

59.   Digital phone systems already use digital signals, so a modem has nothing to do.

60.   Digital signal processors are specialized chips used in cellular telephones, computer networking equipment, toys and cars.