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To: jetcityrandy who wrote (35095)	11/23/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Randy, Hmm... I don't stay up much in that area, but are you indicating that read/writable DVD for PC's and other use (e.g. TV/Video, Audio) are currently available?? $5,000? You can buy writable DVD drives for your PC now, but there are several competing standards. Obviously $5K is more than the average TV watcher is going to spend for an DVD recorder to hook to your TV, but it means that they should be affordable in the next couple of years. Also, aren't there a number of "standards" as they pertain to DVD? I assume a DVD purchased/rented at the local video store plays on any DVD playback device - as in entertainment systems and PC DVD. Can I buy a read/write DVD for PC soon? What is it's capacity? 8Gig, 16 Gig? An A/V unit would have to write in the same format in which DVDs are currently encoded to ensure that you could play the disk on another player. PC DVD-RAM drives are around 6G, I think. If that [read/write DVD] is available, I guess the CD-ROM is destined to be on the shelf like those 360 Kbyte diskettes. But you have a couple of years before that happens <G>. A writable AV unit is good news. You really can't get rid of the VCR until DVD disks are writable. Dave