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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maya who wrote (48610)	2/11/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Hi Maya. CUBE is front line and center in this market! Mike Paxton, a senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group, issued a report this week saying that unit shipments of PVRs -- which allow users to to pause, rewind, instantly replay or play back any live broadcast by recording onto a computer hard drive -- will jump to more than 8 million by 2003. So far,about 950,000 units have been shipped. See: Message 12836160 14. Q: When will consumer-recordable DVD be available? A: C-Cube is the first company to launch a consumer codec (encoder/decoder on single chip). The product, DVxplore, is initially aimed at the consumer PC market. We anticipate stand-alone players should have this capability by 2001, as they utilize the first codec to be offered at consumer price points, DVxcel. 15. Q: What does the D-VHS players offer consumers? A: Currently, D-VHS players which use C-Cube silicon are being sold in Japan. These players are the most advanced digital recorder on the market. D-VHS units can now record up to 24 hours of high quality digital video onto a single tape, and still have the ability to play the older VHS tapes. D-VHS is the only technology that is currently capable of recording HD content. 16. Q: Who is C-Cube's competition in encoders, both professional and consumer? A: In the professional market, C-Cube owns the majority of the market with IBM being the closest competitor. In the consumer markets, C-Cube has at least a multi-quarter lead in codecs (single chip encoder/decoder). Competitors such as Sony, Philips, Matsushita, Icompression and Stream Machine have announced designs of a single chip encoder, with production plans not yet released.* 17. Q: Can you list C-Cube's growth areas for 2000? A: Chip Markets: Set-Top-Boxes Consumer Codecs Consumer DVD Decoders Broadcast Encoders Prosumer Encoders DiviCom Systems Markets: Digital Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Digital Cable Terrestrial Broadcast (HDTV) Telecommunications Datacasting