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To: JPM who wrote (25685)	11/25/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Optibase, Nimbus, and Intel Sponsor DVD Professional Conference in Orlando biz.yahoo.com WILTON, Conn--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 1997--Online Inc., organizer of the new conference, DVD Professional: How to Produce and Implement DVD Technology, named Optibase as the Corporate Sponsor. Nimbus has been named the Associate Sponsor and Intel the Technology Sponsor. The conference will be held February 2-3, 1998, at the Omni Rosen Hotel in Orlando, Florida. These leading companies will anchor the DVD Professional Sponsor Area, providing attendees a first-hand view of the latest DVD development tools and services. Optibase, the DVD Professional Corporate Sponsor and the leading developer of MPEG digital video systems, is proud to introduce DVD Fab!(TM) based on Windows NT--the first ever all-in-one system for DVD creation. Nimbus, the Associate Sponsor, is one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of optical discs distributed throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. The company is at the forefront of CD manufacturing technologies and provides complete audio, software, and DVD disc replication services. As Technology Sponsor, Intel Corp. continues its DVD leadership efforts. Intel's technology and engineering contributions have been at the forefront of bringing DVD to the PC. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking, and communications. DVD Professional is the first conference dedicated to addressing the technical and strategic issues facing DVD title developers, post facility owners/managers, mastering engineers, and corporate storage users. The conference will provide a total immersion in the practical and strategic considerations surrounding DVD implementation. A full conference agenda can be found on Online Inc.'s Web site at onlineinc.com. Web site visitors can view the DVD Professional schedule of events, session content, speakers as they are announced, and sponsors of the event. Registration is also available on the Web. DVD Professional is organized by Online Inc. and its publication EMedia Professional--the source for DVD information. Led by David Guenette, Editor-in-Chief and industry veteran of ten years, EMedia Professional covers the tools, standards, and technologies necessary for digital publishing success. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Hillary Dietz 203/761-1466, ext. 521 hillaryd@onlineinc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: JPM who wrote (25685)	11/25/1997 8:59:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DVD-ROM. Is your PC in the living room yet??????????????????? infoseek.com MORE DVD-ROM MODELS FOR PCs Consumer Multimedia Report Mon, Nov 24 1997 At last week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Jazz Multimedia became latest aftermarket supplier to offer low-cost 2nd-generation DVD-ROM drive for PCs, joining recent entries from Creative Labs and Hi-Val that can read recordable CD-R discs. All tout products' ability to play DVD movies, either on PC monitor or through link to big-screen TV, meaning that, at least over short term, parts of PC industry intend to compete with CE manufacturers for DVD movie playback market. New $379 kit combines Toshiba-sourced drive with remote control and Jammin' DVD II card that provides MPEG-2 and Dolby AC-3 decoding. Package with card and remote is available separately at $199 -- in effect, price of DVD-ROM drive is $180. Jazz spokesman said card uses C-Cube's Ziva 1.1 decoder as well as Auravision digital/analog mixer. Decoder is compatible with all VGA video cards and has video output jack for viewing movie DVDs on TV set. Each kit comes bundled with DVD movie sampler containing films from Warner and other studios and music-video sampler from Warner Music Group. Discs feature Internet link enabling customers to purchase DVDs online. On OEM level, ATI Technologies began offering its ImpacTV2 chip as hardware-assisted enabler for DVD playback, in conjunction with motion-compensation capabilities of company's 3D Rage Pro graphics accelerator. Latter sells for $30-$36 in quantities of 10,000. ATI said benefit of chip's hardware assist is to relieve PC's main Pentium processor of computational workload required for MPEG-2 decoding. Meanwhile, motion compensation function from Rage component provides smooth full-frame rates needed to display DVD video with high quality. Other functions of ImpacTV2 chip include de-interlacing of DVD image for display on progressive-scan PC monitors. Chip also performs signal processing at video output stage to provide flicker-free display on NTSC or PAL large-screen TVs. Company said that enables PC makers to position DVD-ROM-equipped PCs as video source for home theater systems. Chip supports Macrovision 7 copy protection to permit output of protected content to TVs and other video devices. Given lack of DVD-ROM software on retail shelves, many DVD-ROM manufacturers have been touting ability of drives to play movies. While most industry observers we spoke to doubt movies displayed on 14" or even 17" PC monitors ever will prove compelling application for mass market consumers, opinions were mixed on whether DVD-ROM and its ability to be linked to big-screen TVs posed threat to DVD player sales. IBM Aptiva series Mktg. Vp James Bartlett said: "Maybe some people's first DVD movie player could be hooked up to their PC," but he added quickly that he doubted DVD-ROM could be marketed successfully as movie player. "No one wants to go upstairs to turn on their PC and put in a disc just to watch a movie in their living room," he said. IBM already has PCs that can be wired to TV sets so that films can be viewed simultaneously on TV and PC monitor, Bartlett said. While wireless linkup also is possible, he said, cost and bandwidth issues currently prevent that from being viable consumer option. "DVD players are not going to be so expensive that people can only afford one, he said. "By the time the {wireless} bandwidth issue is solved, players will be way down in price and people won't think twice about buying one or more for around the house." But Peter Black, pres. of DVD software developer Xiphias, feels PC manufacturers will end up battling CE industry for DVD movie eyeballs. "I don't think people will have desktop machines in their living rooms," he said. "But if there ends up being sub-$1,000 PCs that are really configured to go into the living room, and I understand there will be, then I think that's going to happen." Black estimated 25% of early adopters of DVD-ROM drives are connecting them to large-screen TV and using them as movie players. (Copyright 1997 by Warren Publishing, Inc.)