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To: J Fieb who wrote (12802)	4/6/1997 12:48:00 PM
From: John Rieman	of 50808

CUBE wrote their own.......................... Missing Win95 Drivers Stall DVD Release ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS Magazine via Individual Inc. : Although it's been painfully slow in coming to market, digital videodisc technology has garnered a lot of media ink in the past few months. While a few brave vendors are shipping high-end PCs with these DVD drives, the lack of Microsoft-supplied drivers is holding other companies back. So far, only Toshiba has a DVD-equipped PC on the retail shelf. It's the Infinia 7220, which features a 200MHz Pentium MMX processor and costs about $3,900. But Toshiba had to write its own drivers to bring the Infinia 7220 to market in early 1997. Panasonic is also quite far along in the release cycle for its first DVD system. But other PC makers say the lack of Microsoft-supplied drivers for Windows 95 is keeping them from launching products. The new technology will allow PCs equipped with DVD drives to play both conventional CD-ROMs and the forthcoming DVD titles. Industry analysts predict DVD will supplant CD-ROMs in no more than three years. The first wave of products will be able store up to seven times as much data as CD-ROMs; successors will hold even more. DVD technology features theater-quality audio. Manufacturers are counting on this to fuel the growth of desktop systems used for high-end multimedia and home-theater applications. DVD will also play entertainment titles. The first major DVD titles should be out this spring and available in Blockbuster and other rental stores. Microsoft is reportedly on track to get DVD drivers out . . . in a few months. Said Rob Olstead, a marketing manager with Acer America: "We're in the position of having to wait for Microsoft to deliver the DVD drivers we need to add that technology to our system." Copyright 1997 CMP Media Inc. <<WINDOWS Magazine -- 04-01-97, p. 56>> [Copyright 1997, CMP Publications]

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