Korea Herald. LG shiping its DVD-ROM. It comes without an MPEG decoder board............................................
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06-26-97 : LG Electronics Introduces DVD-ROM Drives for PCs
The DVD-ROM drive for PCs from LG Electronics
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LG Electronics has released DVD-ROM drives for PCs with the capacity to play not only DVDs (digital video disks) but all types of CDs. The drives are different from DVD players for TVs, which the company had previously brought to the market. With the players, users can watch movies recorded on DVDs on their TVs but cannot use any other type of CD.
The new drives for PCs, like CD-ROM drives, can be built into PCs. Users can run them when their computers are equipped with an MPEG-2 board. The board is needed to decompress the digital signals compressed into DVD titles. The new devices enable users to take full advantage of the merits of DVDs, which include, among other things, the capacity to store an enormous amount of data _ up to 17 gigabytes of data.
They also bring to users the world of multimedia by offering high-quality video and audio and a wide array of multimedia functions. Company officials note that they have managed to independently develop core chips for the devices, from design to production.
They also said that the new drives feature the ``Plug & Play'' function in the Windows 95 environment and are perfectly compatible with the Windows NT operating system. The drives can play DVDs, music CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-I (compact disk interactive), video CDs and photo CDs. For music CDs, the drive has a separate button for users' convenience.
LG Electronics estimates domestic demand for DVD-ROM drives to reach 50,000 units this year, about 3 percent of the CD-ROM drive market. From the latter half of 1999, however, demand for DVD-ROM drives is expected to outpace that for CD-ROM drives. |
