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To: DiViT who wrote (44272)	8/30/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

The ATI/C-Cube board would be great with a DVD-RAM drive, and it's cheaper then this. $999 plus the cost of the drive.............................. dvdinsider.com DVD-RAM ? Today And Tomorrow - 8/30/99 REALmagic Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is being featured at DVD-RAM...Today and Tomorrow, a briefing and industry update sponsored by Hitachi, Panasonic, and Toshiba. During the event, Sigma's DVR will play a key role in showing the versatility and functionality of DVD-RAM for low-cost, real-time DVD video production, editing, storage, and playback. Corporate publishing is moving to video as its favored medium. Educators and corporate in-house production staff want to put video on their web sites or distribute it to other people in their organization. But corporate marketing and training departments are cost-sensitive and need equipment that is easy to use. Paying $1,000 for a digital camera is typical; the camera creates images for use in data sheets and other marketing collateral. Now, Sigma's REALmagic DVR enables professionals to capture images, edit MPEG video, and publish DVD titles for less than $1,000. The demand for the functionality included in REALmagic DVR is growing at a rapid pace, not only in businesses and educational organizations, but also with home consumers. International Data Corporation predicts that as many as one million households will own a digital video recorder by 2000 -- an aggressive forecast for a products that is only in its second year of existence. "Our focus in developing REALmagic DVR has been on maximizing functionality and optimizing value in an easy-to-use package," said William K. Wong, Sigma's vice president of marketing. "REALmagic DVR is as easy to install and use as our hallmark Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card. "It can be used on any Pentium-class PC, including older 200MHz systems frequently found in schools and businesses. Getting DVD encoding, editing, authoring, and DVD playback for less than $1,000 is quite a bargain." REALmagic DVR supports any DVD-RAM or DVD-ROM drive (IDE or SCSI). REALmagic DVR will be available during the third quarter of this year and will be sold through OEMs and system integrators. A number of end-user upgrade kit producers are planning to release retail kits incorporating REALmagic DVR in time for the holidays. The kits will enable customers to upgrade their Windows 98/NT PCs to video and DVD production systems. CONTACT: Sigma Designs sigmadesigns.com