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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (43513)	8/2/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Japan's domestic DVD Player sales up 37.8% in the first 1/2 of the year.............................. digitaltheater.com Home Digital Appliance Shipments Rise Sharply In Jan-Jun Date:02-Aug-99 Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO (Nikkei)--Domestic shipments of digital home appliances grew more than 30% year on year in the January-June period, the Electronic Industries Association of Japan said Friday. DVD players marked a 37.8% increase in shipments to 139,000 units. DVD shipments are expected to be boosted in the second half by the release this autumn of a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752) model that can play both music and video. Shipments of portable MiniDisc players and other MD devices climbed 34.6% to 1.32 million units. Shipments of other audio equipment were steady. Shipments of CD and radio-cassette players rose 7.1% to 1.37 million units. Shipments of color TVs declined 3.7% to 4.19 million units, but the rate of decline slowed from a 10.3% fall in the first half of 1998. Audiovisual makers slowed the fall by shifting to flat cathode-ray tube TVs from ordinary CRT models. "We can expect a turnaround towards the year-end," said an official at Sony Corp. (6758). Other makers are also expected to release new flat TV models for the year-end shopping season. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Saturday morning edition)