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To: Stoctrash who wrote (25333)	11/16/1997 6:26:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 50808

Cube in current issue of Byte Magazine... To: Ken Hays (4597 ) From: William T. Katz Sunday, Nov 16 1997 4:30PM EST Reply #4598 of 4598 Oh my. That really really looks bad. What is the actual # shares outstanding for Innovacom? Did we ever get an exact #? Judging from the size, I'd say (from pure speculation) it was the owners of an acquired company? Maybe Sierra or the antenna company? BTW, check out the most recent Byte magazine. There is an interesting article on CUBE's encoder. Multiple encoders can be hooked up to encode more complex video. HDTV requires 8-10 chips (?) so in the rare event Innovacom is working on higher res, they could still be the first single chip HDTV encoder. HDTV decode I believe only requires 2 of the new CUBE chips. -Bill

To: Stoctrash who wrote (25333)	11/17/1997 6:54:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Pioneer ships first DVD-R drive. Get yours Boyz & Girlz for only $17,000............... Pioneer Ships Industry's First DVD-Recordable Drives and DVD-Recordable Media; Drive and Media Fully Compatible with DVD-R Standard 1.0 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997--Pioneer New Media Technologies announced today the first available DVD recordable (DVD-R) drive and media, the DVR-S101 and DVS-V3950S. Compatible with version 1.0 of the DVD-R standard, the drive offers 3.95GB capacity -- roughly six times more than a CD-R disc. With its low cost per megabyte, compact design and portability, Pioneer's DVD-R drive is ideal for short-run, desktop DVD authoring and long-term data archival. "DVD-Recordable will provide users with a powerful tool for new and existing applications in nearly every industry," said Paul Dempsey, senior vice president of marketing and sales at Pioneer New Media Technologies. "Through DVD-R, Pioneer will enable new markets and applications for DVD technology." DVD-R is a write-once medium that can store any type of digital information such as video, audio, images, multimedia titles and data files. DVD-R discs are usable on any DVD playback device including DVD-ROM drives and DVD video players. To write a disc, a DVD-R drive, blank DVD-R disc and host computer system containing the information to be recorded are required. Pioneer provides pre-mastering software to create a disc image file and conduct the recording process at the desktop. Data can be written to or read from a DVD disc at 1,385 kilobytes -- roughly nine times the transfer rate of a "1x" CD-ROM drive. A complete 3.95GB side can be written in approximately 50 minutes. The DVR-S101 features a data transfer rate of 1,385 kilobytes and a data buffer capacity of 4MB. The drive is equipped with an industry standard SCSI-2 interface and uses a tray loading system for easy disc handling. DVD-Recordable media supports a new file system called "UDF Bridge." This is a hybrid file system that provides both the newer UDF (Universal Disc Format) system as well as the older ISO-9660 system used by the CD-ROM format. This allows DVD discs to be used with computer operating systems that do not have any provision for UDF support for enhanced compatibility. DVD-Recordable technology is ideal for testing and developing DVD applications, and small-scale distribution of DVD content. It is also ideal for archival storage of image, film or video data. In addition, since DVD discs are dimensionally identical to CDs, they are compatible with existing jukebox and changer mechanisms. This will allow networked environments to easily adopt this technology for high-capacity archive applications and serve as a natural extension of CD-R by providing higher quality, faster information flow and significantly more data per volume. The DVR-S101 began shipping for beta testing in October for continued software development. Additional units will be available through the distribution channel by December 1997 for a U.S. list price of $16,995. The drive comes complete with five blank DVD-R discs and pre-mastering software. Additional DVD-R discs are available for a U.S. list price of $49.95. Pioneer New Media Technologies Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. is dedicated to bringing the very best of leading-edge technology to market. Pioneer invented the world's first multiple-disc CD-ROM changer and offered the first multifunction optical drive capable of reading and writing to both MO and WORM. The Optical Division's products include DVD-Recordable and DVD-ROM drives; CD-ROM drives, changers and jukeboxes; optical drives; DVD-Recordable and CD-Recordable media; software; controllers; and accessories for a wide range of storage and multimedia solutions in the educational, government, industrial and general business markets. For more information, contact Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. at 2265 E. 220th Street, Long Beach, Calif. 90810; phone (310) 952-2111 or (800) 444-6784; URL: www.pioneerusa.com CONTACT: Roberts, Mealer & Co. Sylvia Chansler/Leilani Smith, 714/957-1314 schansler@rmc.xo.com lsmith@rmc.xo.com