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To: Hadrian who wrote (25198)	11/13/1997 4:58:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I'm ready for a rally too. This is Comdex time, so we should expect to hear lots of announcements related to DVD. Some will be hype, and others will be real. Here's some repackaged old news from Zoran. I wonder how hard it is to defeat the country codes or CSS encryption in SoftDVD? Zoran, CompCore to Sell DVD Player Software November 13, 1997 (TOKYO) -- Two U.S.-based companies, Zoran Corp. and CompCore Multimedia, Inc., said they started to sell licenses for SoftDVD, software that plays DVD video on personal computers, to Japanese PC makers. In general, users have to prepare the DVD-ROM drive and DVD decoder board to play DVD video on a PC. SoftDVD eliminates the need for the decoder board. Ron Richter, vice president of Zoran's worldwide sales, said the software costs less than 1/10th that of a decoder. SoftDVD is compatible with protected DVD videos, MPEG2/MPEG1 videos and Dolby digital audio. It also has a DVD navigation function to display DVD video titles. SoftDVD runs on Pentium II PCs with Windows95. The two companies are targeting Japanese manufacturers of PCs, DVD drives, graphics boards and DVD content providers. They already are in discussions with several customers. They also are developing a Windows NT version of the software. Zoran is a dedicated video compression technology developer. CompCore developed SoftPEG MPEG1 decoder software. It merged with Zoran in December 1996. Zoran now has a Japanese branch to communicate with Japanese customers. (Hi-Tech News Center)