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To: Stoctrash who wrote (24631)	10/30/1997 8:42:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Is Sony using MPEG2 video compression in its next generation camcorders and recordable optical discs????............................. japanbiztech.com Sony Makes Prototypes of Optical Disk Drives October 30, 1997 (TOKYO) -- Sony Corp. made prototypes of rewritable optical disk drives that can record 8GB to 12GB on a single-sided 12cm disk. The Tokyo-based electronics company expects to market such products by 2000. Sony has developed three types of drives: (1) A phase-change optical disk drive with a recording capacity of 8GB using a red semiconductor laser of 635nm as an optical source. (2) A phase-change optical disk drive with a recording capacity of 12GB using a blue-green semiconductor laser of 515nm as an optical source. (3) A magneto-optical disk drive with a recording capacity of 10GB using a red semiconductor laser of 635nm as an optical source. Each drive uses an optical system to enhance the numerical aperture to 0.85, by serial-type combining of two object lenses. Sony has demonstrated a camcorder and compressed the images by using MPEG2. The images were replayed on the three types of optical disk drives at 6Mbps or 12Mbps. "Sony seeks to use this technology as the basis for a next-generation household video recorder to replace conventional VTRs. The technology must be able to record video for more than 3 hours on a single disk. That is, a recording capacity of more than 10GB is needed. It will be something like a home server equipped with disk-change functions," said Katsuaki Tsurushima, a Sony corporate vice president. Tsurushima said that a Zn-Se blue-green laser can play back for 1,000 hours at a low outgoing power range. But if the power range is high, the laser will only last for a few hours. In the case of the phase-change optical disk drive, the distance between the lens and the surface of the disk was expanded, and this improves control. As for the magneto-optical disk, the recording method is that of magnetic field modulation recording. Related story : Japan Moves Ahead on Futuristic 'Home Server' (Nikkei Electronics)

To: Stoctrash who wrote (24631)	10/30/1997 1:00:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Mildred fell back to second place... DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST ÿ 10/27/97 Los Angeles Daily News VALLEY Page B4 (Copyright 1997) ÿ THE GAME: Five area residents - plus the Business section's mascot, Mark T. Maker - are managing fictitious portfolios that stood at $100,000 on Aug. 1. Contestants can buy and sell daily, but each transaction costs $50. The portfolios are limited to stocks traded on the nation's major exchanges. Mark T. Maker, being the Valley boy he is, has vowed to win the contest picking only local stocks. THE PAYOFF: Whomever has the largest portfolio on Feb. 1 stands tallest. FIRST PLACE NAME: Michele Cohn STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares Children's Broadcasting 3,192 Ascend 382 Biosite 2,640 Cognos 824 Diagnostic 1,035 Health FX nergy 2,480 Xylan 633 Tricon Global 43 Restaurants TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Novellus split 2-for-1, then sold 266 shares at 55 3/4; bought 633 shares of Xylan at 23 1/4 VALUE THIS MORNING: $117,562.75, stocks $17.47, cash VALUE ON OCT. 17: $122,642.18, stocks $5.22, cash SECOND PLACE NAME: Mildred Chavez STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares Apple 500 Cirrus 500 C - Cube 400 Golden State Bancorp 300 Iomega 500 Kmart 700 Quantum 500 AT&T 300 Unisys 1,100 Xoma 1,000 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $116,368.75, stocks $331.25, cash VALUE ON OCT. 17: $118,904.70, stocks $331.25, cash THIRD PLACE NAME: Mark T. Maker STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares On Assignment 400 Cheesecake Factory 500 Countrywide Credit 375 Cohr 1,000 Four Media 1,500 IHOP 500 MiniMed 277 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $104,967.44, stocks $276.94, cash VALUE ON OCT. 17: $102,361.87, stocks $276.94, cash FOURTH PLACE NAME: Lorraine Sadler STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stocks Shares American Radio 150 Ascend 200 Cisco 150 Intel 100 Mylan 1,000 Oracle 300 PepsiCo 125 Quantum 400 Turbo Chef 300 Western Digital 200 Tricon Global 12 Restaurants TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None. VALUE THIS MORNING: $100,472.26, stocks $753.13, cash VALUE ON OCT. 10:o $104,553.39, stocks $753.13, cash FIFTH PLACE NAME: Cliff Harwood STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares Airborne 135 America Online 141 Amex 120 Caliber Systems 153 Compaq 134 Goodyear 153 Immunex 125 Lone Star 120 Pfizer 160 Philips 101 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $94,588.63, stocks $167.19, cash VALUE ON OCT. 17:o $94,275.81, stocks $167.19, cash SIXTH PLACE NAME: Jeffrey Wood STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares ATC 350 3Com 150 Formulab 3,200 Golden Phoenix Mineral 3,875 Microsoft 100 Oracle 300 Safeco 425 Sun 275 Microsystems TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $93,799.22, stocks $259.44, cash VALUE ON OCT. 17: $96,016.99, stocks $259.44, cash