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233 II . Answer the questions to the text : 1. What was in the video? 2. What company made that video clip? 3. How can we call it? 4. What is the main problem of PCs users according to Tim Dowling? 5. Who hopes that digital home can be a new source of revenue? 6. What does "digital home" really mean? 7. What companies are named in the text? 8. What do internet users apply their PCs for? 9. Why does Mr. Coburn think the digital home to be a clear "loser"? 10. How do consumers buy products? 11. What is the main problem of formats and devices? 12. Why do cable and telecom companies invest in laying fibre- optic cables to homes? III . Enumerate the new information you have obtained from the text . IV . Translate and make your comment on the following state- ments from the text . 1. Demand from corporate buyers of technology is expected to be unimpressive for years. 2. In photography, traditional film is fast being replaced by digi- tal cameras and pictures, TV and radio broadcasters are also shifting to digital transmissions, with Britain leading the way. 3. By contrast, getting a digital home up and running promises several lost weekends of fiddling with manuals and settings, and hefty expenses in new gear. 4. The premise of the entire vision, remember, is that heteroge- neous devices talk to one another and readily transfer content to wher- ever the consumer wants to access it.