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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (44723)	9/14/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Would you buy a video recorder that records to media that will not play back on your mom's video player that uses the "same" media?

To: Black-Scholes who wrote (44723)	9/14/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

A few more words about D-VHS... Phillips: Victor, Philips Link Digital Video Efforts 08/26/1999 Comline Pacific Research Consulting Copyright (C) 1999 Comline Business Data, Inc.; Source: World Reporter (TM) Victor Co. of Japan <6792> has said it plans to work with Philips in the field of D - VHS , or digital home video. According to the August 25 announcement, Philips will begin OEM supply of a video deck coming on sale late this year in Europe, and the two will take on network technology to connect D - VHS video to PCs and data appliances. On the same day, Victor said that the HM- DR10000 video deck, capable of recording digitally for up to 24 hours on a single videotape, would debut in Japan in November at a price of 198,000 yen. Victor will also supply Philips with the unit. SONY Saving VHS In Digital Age Chris Green 09/09/1999 ABIX (Australasian news abstracts) Copyright ABIX Australasian Business Intelligence Source: The Courier-Mail 9 Sep 1999 p15. Sony and JVC are developing Digital VHS, or D - VHS in 1999. Digital data from digital television broadcast, for example, could be stored using a machine to encode the digital data for storage on existing VHS video recording and playback devices. D - VHS will be able to store up to 44 gigabytes of musical information on a normal length VHS tape. Australia's first available ultra-portable DVD player is set to be released later in 1999 by Panasonic. The DVD-L10 will retail at $A3299. It will be able to play audio and video CDs as well as DVDs, weighs less than a kilogram, measures 160x160x43 mm, and includes a stereo speakers and a 14.5cm LCD screen with 16:9 Wide-screen aspect ratio, and different Zoom display modes. The rechargable battery can endure two hours of continuous playback. Ports for use with existing video, television, and audio equipment are included; Chris Green ; .

To: Black-Scholes who wrote (44723)	9/14/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Cube is in the Sony D-VHS recorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sony To Subcontract D - VHS Manufacturing To Japan's JVC --------------- 07/07/1999 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Sony Corp. (SNE or 6758) will sub-contract the manufacturing of digital videocassette ( D - VHS ) players to Victor Co. of Japan (J.VIC or 6792), a Sony spokeswoman said Wednesday. The D-VHS players will be sold under the Sony label. The players can record and play back high-resolution digital television images relayed via satellite. The spokeswoman declined to say when the product would be made commercially available. The agreement will allow both companies to "share expertise and enable the development of a new D - VHS system," the spokeswoman said. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 07-07-99 1042GMT -------------------------------- Also found this.... JVC to make digital video players for Sony. 07/12/1999 Japan Consumer Electronics Scan Copyright 1999 Information Access Company. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT 1999 KYODO NEWS INTERNATIONAL, INC. TOKYO, July 7 Kyodo Sony Corp. has arranged with Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) for JVC to manufacture digital videocassette ( D - VHS ) players under the Sony label, Sony officials said Wednesday. The players can record and play back high-resolution digital television images relayed via satellite. JVC recently began marketing digital videocassette recorders under its own brand. It is rare for Sony to have another company make products under its brand. Pioneer Corp. once made laser-disk players for Sony, but only for a limited period. Sony officials said the company decided it would be more profitable for it to have JVC make the digital videocassette players than to produce them itself at its own factories. Sony will have JVC add technical specifications that will differentiate the Sony-brand products from those of JVC, they said. The players will probably be put on the market this summer or shortly thereafter, the officials said. JVC belongs to the corporate group headed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which has been a major rival of Sony in the electronics industry. Sony and JVC have also been rivals in the videocassette recorder business and other audiovisual electronics. JVC led the alliance of electronics makers that pushed the VHS video format, while Sony promoted its own Beta format. In March this year, Sony said it will market videocassette recorders based on the D - VHS technology. JVC has been trying to make D - VHS the industry standard.