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To: DiViT who wrote (25028)	11/10/1997 1:26:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

off topic: John Bollinger's charting site equitytrader.com

To: DiViT who wrote (25028)	11/10/1997 3:45:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Motorola decides to get into the digital TV business, finally. To do that, they have to team with Sarnoff, who the CUBE founders worked with on the committee that developed the MPEG2 standard. How many years are they behind CUBE in R&D, in-house experience, etc.?

To: DiViT who wrote (25028)	11/10/1997 4:20:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Philips DVD kit. With friends like this . . ..................... Philips Selects Sigma Designs' REALmagic Hollywood for DVD Upgrade Kit FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997-- Philips Using Low Cost DVD/MPEG-2 Playback Card In Complete, User-Friendly Kit Continuing to strengthen its position as the leader in DVD MPEG-2 playback cards, Sigma Designs, Inc.(Nasdaq:SIGM) today announced that Philips Electronics has chosen the REALmagic Hollywood DVD MPEG-2 playback card for its recently introduced DVD-ROM Upgrade Kit for the U.S. market. Built around Philips' new DRD-5200 DVD Drive, the comprehensive kit includes all of the hardware and software required to play DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and all popular CD formats. The kit also includes an outstanding collection of DVD multimedia titles. The selection by Philips Electronics is the latest in a series of design wins for the REALmagic Hollywood card. Currently shipping in high volume, the card brings users state-of-the-art DVD digital video and digital surround-sound. "Our goal was to create an affordable system that would produce video and audio of such outstanding quality that it would be used with both personal computer and home entertainment systems," commented Cornelis Klik, Project Director for DVD at Philips Electronics. "We selected the Sigma REALmagic Hollywood card because it provided the superior performance and quality that enabled us to meet our goal." Developed as a complete DVD solution for multimedia and entertainment applications, the upgrade kit offers users a perfect balance of outstanding data storage capacity, spectacular video and crystal clear audio. The DRD-5200 supports all popular CD formats, including audio CD, CD-ROM, CD-Recordable and CD-reWritable in addition to DVD-Video and DVD-ROM disks that store up to 17 gigabytes of data. "We are delighted that a supplier with the reputation for innovation, quality, and performance of Philips has selected our REALmagic Hollywood card," added Prem Talreja, Sigma Designs' Vice President of Marketing. "Philips' selection of our products is an endorsement of Sigma's technology, quality, and market presence." Available as an OEM product, the Hollywood DVD playback card turns a PC into a full-featured DVD player that fully exploits all of the spectacular digital video and digital surround sound capabilities of the DVD format and upcoming MPEG-2 interactive titles. The REALmagic Hollywood DVD/MPEG-2 playback card displays flicker-free video at full-screen resolution, making video watching on a PC truly a new and rich experience. Sigma's solution works with any standard 133 MHz system without requiring a specialized graphic adapter and fully complies with DVD specifications. This makes it the ideal choice for PC manufacturers and DVD upgrade kit providers. The REALmagic DVD card includes device drivers and Sigma Designs' DVD Station, an easy to use program for DVD navigation and control. With DVD Station, PC users can take full advantage of every interactive DVD feature, using simple VCR-like controls to choose sound track and subtitle language, select viewing aspect ratios, and change viewing angles. The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. Users can also interact with DVD Station menus to exercise parental control and execute search commands. About Philips N.V. Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's largest electronics companies with sales of $41 billion in 1996. Its 262,500 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, semiconductors and components, consumer products and systems, and software and services. Quoted on the NYSE, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges, it is a world leader in lighting, color television sets, electric shavers and recorded music (PolyGram). About Sigma Designs: Sigma Designs entered the multimedia market in 1993 with products based on the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) standard for compressing and decompressing digital audio and video signals. Since then, Sigma has been a driving force behind the advancement of the MPEG technology used in most of the multimedia products on the market today. Sigma Designs' products include affordable MPEG decoding hardware used in PC, notebook computers and networked video applications. All Sigma Designs' products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers(OEMs). For additional information, call 800/845-8086, 510/770-0100, fax: 510/770-2640, or visit Sigma's web site at sigmadesigns.com. Note to Editors: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this release are forward looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the timely introduction and market acceptance of Sigma's MPEG/DVD and other related products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, and other risk factors detailed from time to time in the company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 1997 and on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 1997. CONTACT: S&S Public Relations, Inc. Lauren Finkelman/Sophia Chee, Tel: 800/287-2279 Fax: 312/266-8247 lauren@sspr.com sophia@sspr.com

To: DiViT who wrote (25028)	11/10/1997 5:47:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

More Open Cable............................................. mediacentral.com CableLabs Places OpenCable Initiative on the 'Fast Track' By Jim Barthold CableLabs said last week that its OpenCable initiative to foster interoperable digital set-tops has been placed on what it called a "fast track." The announcement was "an update on what we're thinking and a progress report," according to Bill Schleyer, chairman of the OpenCable task force. "It was targeted at the vendor community." The OpenCable initiative wants to foster interoperability among digital set-top boxes built by lots of vendors and used in two-way cable networks. CableLabs said it has received 23 responses from computer and consumer electronics vendors to its late August request for information that covered such interfaces as digital cable TV signal formats (MPEG-2); consumer privacy; copyright protection; high-speed Internet connection interfaces; and the author interactive application interfaces. Last week's announcement made it clear that no individual vendor will dominate the specifications-setting process. The statement emphasized that "OpenCable will not specify a single microprocessor or operating system." Schleyer noted that the announcement wasn't intended to allay fears in the industry that Microsoft Corp. would dominate the software portion of the specifications. "Our communication with Microsoft is such that we encourage their participation," he said. "They have a great set of software products and they have a great name in the retail community." He added, however, that Microsoft and other proposed vendors must "get comfortable S that we're going to have multiple suppliers of all hardware and software elements in our end-to-end system. We just have to do that. "We saw what happened in the PC industry and it's just not going to happen in our industry, period." The potential for standardized set-top boxes has affected several recent digital announcements. Adelphia Communications Corp., for instance, last week said it would roll out digital services in half of its 50 systems on a limited basis while waiting for an OpenCable box. "Everything we're doing is geared to get the product out there, meet the short-term needs, make sure we do it in a way that's compatible and allows us to evolve smoothly to the real end, which is a digital interactive box and the OpenCable standard," said James Rigas, Adelphia's planning VP. Schleyer said specifications should be developed as early as the end of this year and interoperable prototypes built by the middle of 1998. "In total, it's a '98 event," he said, noting he doesn't expect to see anything resembling an OpenCable box at December's Western Show in Anaheim, Calif. "Having said that, we intend to be fully backwards-compatible, so you'll see things [at the show] that will be ultimately supported by the OpenCable standards," Schleyer concluded. "This is an industry that's moving quickly." (November 10, 1997)