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To: shane forbes who wrote (9899)	2/19/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: frank/fla.	Respond to of 25814

My friend said the industry was losing billions..The fact that all these companies are making this announcement together is very significant....I don't want to sound too optimistic but he feels because of the money being lost that the suppliers of the entertainment product will literal force the manufactures to make these machines in mass in some cases they are the same / the days of the vcr are numbered he feels,,thay are quite exited about the announcement .Its literally the talk of the town....even the artist want this change they are loosing a heap of their % of sales. This might really jump quicker than we all think any suggestions on other stocks that would benefit...I sure would like to know something about the hard ware..

To: shane forbes who wrote (9899)	2/19/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

Sony develops PlayStation-compatible PDA TOKYO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, a unit of Sony Corp said on Thursday it has developed a miniature personal digital assistant (PDA) that can download data from its popular PlayStation games console. A company spokesman said the PDA was likely to hit the market towards the end of this year. The new product will be about the same size as Bandai Co Ltd's hit toy, the virtual pet tamagotchi, and has functions like a handheld game player, he said. Handheld games have been best-selling items in Japan in recent years as Tamagotchi and Nintendo Co Ltd's Gameboy player sparked a craze among Japanese schoolchildren. The new product uses technology from PlayStation's memory card and is equipped with a liquid crystal display (LCD) and infrared-ray communication functions, the company said in a statement. More functions for the product will be decided in the process of developing application software, the spokesman said. One possible function would be to download digital characters in a PlayStation fight game software, and train them on the PDA's LCD monochrome screen. The characters could then be downloaded back on the 32-bit PlayStation for a fighting match with other characters. Data on a PDA can be exchanged with another PDA through the infrared-ray communication function, the spokesman said. Sales of Pocket Monster software, or Pokemon, adopted for the Gameboy player, total some seven million units since its launch in February last year. o~~~ O