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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Solder who wrote (1187)	6/28/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

The upcoming DVCR (Digital VCR) market will be for recording satellite movies and digital video via cable. Also there will be a market for time-shifting devices. The new Replay box actual uses a hard disk for storage. You can watch a TV show, pause the show and go make a sandwich, and simply resume your TV show as the Replay box records the rest of the show. Can even use it as a VCR. Considering hard disks are costing $88 for a 10 GB disk this is pretty nice functionality for cheap. The optical guys have been screwing around for so long that they are leaving the market window open for other players. High capacity Orb is a possibility as is the OnStream drive with a disk front-end.

To: John Solder who wrote (1187)	6/28/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 5023

>>Considering most Americans can't get the blinking 12:00 off the VCR, there will be very few buyers of a 10GB drive to copy DVD's.<< Syed wasn't talking about a DVD-copier to Orb disks. He was talking about a VCR with a an Orb drive instead of tape that was as easy to operate as pushing the single Record button. You could record your football game in DVD quality and replay it starting anywhere instantly. He was talking about a simple box that sits on your TV- you put in an Orb cart, and press either Play or Record, just like your present VCR. If the 10 Gig Orb cart costs $29 like the 2.2 Gig does, this product could very well succeed. This is the market Syed has expressed a wish to enter. Orb for PC's was just to get the basic product off the ground. I think he has succeeded. Jaz is WAY too expensive for this.