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To: DiViT who wrote (30597)	3/9/1998 2:24:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

More Pioneer settops. I think they OEM EchoStar boxes(read LSI)....... digitaltheater.com Pioneer To Boost European Output, Sales Of Satellite STBs <Picture> [ Back to the News \| Back HOME ] Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO (Nikkei)--Pioneer Electronic Corp. (6773) plans to expand its European manufacture and sales of set-top boxes (STBs) for receiving digital satellite broadcasts. The company already supplies STBs for French and Spanish satellite broadcasting and plans to add Italy to the list as early as April. Pioneer currently manufactures basic components for STBs at its Shizuoka Prefecture factory, shipping the parts to a U.K.-based audiovisual-equipment subsidiary for assembly. To lower costs, Pioneer plans to invest several hundred million yen in fiscal 1998 to integrate parts production and assembly at the U.K. facility and triple production there, to roughly 80,000 units per month. The company estimates its fiscal 1997 STB sales at just over 1 million units and is targeting sales of about 1.2 million units in fiscal 1998. (The Nikkei Industrial Daily Monday edition) <<Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. -- 03-09-98>> [Copyright 1998, Nikkei America]