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To: J.S. who wrote (30098)	3/2/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Slide Cube Slide China and Asia is not on your side. Get out of the Ice Cube before the next major leg down! PS. Joe, I couldn't care less about your message board soap opera! The Ice Cube is coming down hard! Get out before you get hurt!

To: J.S. who wrote (30098)	3/2/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Matsushita to Release Image Processing PC for Home Users A good start, but it should have MPEG-1 encoding now, and MPEG-2 encoding/DVD-RAM (eventually)........ March 2, 1998 (Tokyo) -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. will release new personal computers with image processing capability targeted at home users. The new products will be in the Digital AVC Studio line, a company spokesperson announced recently. The Digital AVC Studio line will have three models of two types. The FX-ED01 and FX-ED01/M will be small-sized desktop models equipped with a television tuner. They will have a video capture capability to process still images. The FX-CR01 will be a high-end mini tower PC designed to process motion pictures. The model will be equipped with a Pentium II microprocessor chip, a DV deck and an IEEE1394 (DV terminal). The small-sized FX-ED01 and FX-ED01/M will share the same specifications, except the latter model will be equipped with a K56flex or fax modem PC card. The models will be pre-installed with software packages to use a television tuner and video capture capability. One of the packages, TV Viewer, will show on a PC display monitor images from the equipment connected to a television and video input terminal, and capture the images as a still or motion picture data. The two models will be also pre-installed with other software to process images, including Adobe Photo Deluxe 2.0J, photo-retouch software for beginners and Nigaoe to convert digital image data to portrait-like images. They will be equipped with a 200MHz AMD-K6 processor, 512KB of pipeline burst SRAM secondary cache memory, standard 32MB of SDRAM main memory and a 2.1GB hard disk drive. The models will also come with a PD drive that can be used as an 8x CD-ROM drive. As graphics chips, they will employ 3D Rage Pro from Canada's ATI Technologies Inc. The FX-ED01 will be priced at 298,000 yen (US$2,328) and the FX-ED01/M at 328,000 yen (US$2,563). The first model will be released on March 5 and the latter on March 20. The high-end mini tower FX-CR01 will be equipped with a 266MHz Pentium II processor, a Mini DV deck or a digital video deck for home users, Ultra Wide SCSI and IEEE1394. The model will be pre-installed with software packages designed to process motion picture images. It will be manufactured on orders, with some products being sold at stores. The model will be capable of a non-linear editing so users can capture motion pictures from a DV deck into a hard drive with pre-installed Adobe Premiere LE4.2J software. They can also connect a digital video camera to a IEEE 1394 port and take out frame images they want from the video camera to the built-in DV deck to edit and automatically dub images. The DV deck will also serve as data storage. The high-end model will be equipped with a 440LX chip set, standard 64MB of SDRAM main memory, standard 4MB of video memory, a 4.5GB hard drive with Ultra Wide SCSI and a PD drive. It will also adopt 3D Rage Pro of ATI Technologies Inc. of Canada for graphics chips. The product will list for 698,000 yen (US$5,453) and be released on April 25. (Hi-Tech News Center)