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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (49566)	3/8/1998 5:33:00 PM
From: Daniel Liberty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

I don't know what to expect for earnings from Iomega this quarter but I can tell you that the Zip drive is really being hyped in Michigan. They are advertised on radio and TV continuously. I hear them talked about, in a positive light, on PC talk shows and at Comp USA. In other words, the money being spent on advertising seems to be working. Let's all hope this equates to dollars in the till, if not this quarter than the next one for sure. Long on IOM. Dan

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (49566)	3/8/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: DVD, the wave of the future? OFF TOPIC Andy, What do you think of DVD? Do you have a player? I had never really paid that much attention to it, but I took a look at a DVD-player today at Fry's and was less than impressed. It was a $650 unit, and it just looked like a glorified digital VCR. Although I've heard about a lot of special features that are possible with DVD(multiple camera angles, languages, formats, etc.), I couldn't find anything special on the remote or the front of the machine. The image was very nice and crisp when paused (and playing, of course), but FF/REW was almost like a fast slide show--still pictures changing about every half second. The disk looked just like a CD-R disk (gold on one side, fingerprints all over it <G>). I didn't see anything that would make me want to buy one, even if (or when) they become considerably cheaper. Just one consumer's opinion, - Michael Coley - wwol.com