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To: Peter V who wrote (24931)	11/7/1997 10:54:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 50808

Matsushita DVD-RAM drives will be available on 1/20/98 for $820. They will include software for MPEG1 compression, and be capable of storing 2.6 Gigabytes. (CUBE's MVP would be much better for real time hardware MPEG1 compression.) FredE, you could store your home movies on this disc and watch them with your family. To everyone: In case you hadn't noticed, the digital video age is here. Now. Matsushita to Debut External DVD-RAM Drive November 7, 1997 (TOKYO) -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced it will start selling its 1F-D100J external DVD-RAM drive with a 2.6GB capacity on Jan. 20, 1998. This will be the first time that an external DVD-RAM drive alone will be marketed. The price for the drive is 100,000 yen (US$820). DVD-RAM drives are delivered to personal computer manufacturers only by drives makers such as Hitachi Ltd. or Toshiba Corp. DVD-RAM disks with a 2.6GB single-sided recording capacity and 5.2GB double-sided recording capacity will be introduced at the same time for 2,500 yen (US$20.50) and 4,000 yen (US$32.80), making the price of 1MB or storage less than 1 yen. The price of a DVD-RAM is about the same as an existing 650MB CD-R at a retail price of about 600 yen (US$4.90). As a recording medium for PCs, 2.6GB DVD-RAM is comparable with a 3.0GB phase-change rewritable medium being developed by Sony Corp. Industry observers say that Matsushita intends to create the DVD-RAM market by cutting prices of media before Sony's PC/RW products are ready in the summer of 1998. Aside from the device driver for Windows95, Matsushita will also bundle software to compress hard disk data onto a DVD-RAM for backup purposes, encode software that converts video data taken by a video capture board into the MPEG-1 real-time format and edit MPEG-1 files. Matsushita will also start delivering internal DVD-RAM drives for PC manufacturers from 1998. A SCSI-2 drive will be introduced in February and an ATAPI drive in March. The two drive types plus an LF-D100J type can record and replay the PC 650MB optical disk that has been on the market since 1995. Related stories: Sony to Ship Rewritable Optical Disk in Nov. Matsushita, Hitachi Debut DVD-RAMs at Biz Show (Nikkei Multimedia)