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To: Don Green who wrote (35556)	12/4/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

OTOTOTOTOTOT Don, Pioneer Corp. President Kaneo Ito had been waiting more than a year to release one of the most anxiously anticipated consumer devices of the decade. Last week, he got his wish. In front of a packed house in Tokyo's Hibiya district, Ito unveiled the first digital-versatile-disc device capable of recording disks that can be played on any DVD player. Who do I make my check out to? <G> This is what I want -- a machine that I can record onto and send the movies to friends and family with regular DVD players. Dave p.s. Re: how many Playstation owners will upgrade? A boatload of them. Even if it's $499. With only 2 chips, RDRAM doesn't affect the cost nearly as much as the 16 chip RIMMs do in PCs. Sony knows it needs to get the momentum going quickly (at least I'm hearing very positive things about Dreamcast sales, which should be scaring them), so I suspect the price'll be set to drive strong holiday sales in 2000. JMO.

To: Don Green who wrote (35556)	12/6/1999 9:43:00 AM
From: jetcityrandy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Don, (or anyone else?) [not totally off topic] Will VCR's (slowley) disappear? Will floppy disks and their "higher" density counterparts disappear? 6.5 Gigs isn't THAT large, but within Five years, R/W DVD should be over ten times that capacity and the cost could be halved at least four or five times - to about $150-$300. Can the Performing/Recording Artists Union screw this up, like they did Digital Audio Tape? Stand by to be amazed..... Will Rambus memory suit this technology? Will Texas Instruments DSP's be incorporated?