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To: Stoctrash who wrote (44732)	9/14/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Mark's Monday Memo... digitaltelevision.com snipits: - C-Cube's DVx-HD codec is said by customers to be pretty nice. It uses a different form of image segmentation (slices rather than blocks) and shares motion info between segments. he's not entirely correct. It slices AND dices, depending on the firmware and number of chips used For BS: - Sales to U.S. dealers of (mostly non-H/DTV) projection TVs increased 8.8% for the first 34 weeks of 1999 over the same period in 1998. Sales of direct-view TVs increased 6.4% in the same period. I find it interesting that those two growth rates are getting closer together, although, of course, it may not mean much yet; big sales come later in the year. Other interesting stuff: More VCRs (including camcorders) have been sold to dealers than TVs, excluding TV/VCR combos in both categories (15,709,080 vs. 13,519,219). If the camcorders are excluded, TV wins, but not by much (13,519,219 to 12,834,037); at the rate things are going, that will soon change. Add to the VCR figures another 2,616,693 TV/VCR combos, 42.9% more than in the same period of 1998 (non-combo home decks are up 26% and camcorders are up 18.6%). It seems to me that this extraordinary growth of the already-huge base of ordinary VHS VCRs may help delay the transition to HD.

To: Stoctrash who wrote (44732)	9/14/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

From Mark's monday memo [OT] - Sega's Dreamcast console (and associated games and accessories) sold 97 million units in the U.S. in ONE DAY last week. Sega hasn't yet put a price tag on that, but they must surely have trounced the opening-day box-office gross record set by "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Hi, I'm Divit and I am a Dreamcast owner... Interestingly enough I bought one. But while I've posted about DVD until my fingers bled, I still don't own a DVD player. Pretty silly, huh?