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To: Helios who wrote (30888)	3/13/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DVD-Rom replacing any CD technology..................................... ijumpstart.com NEWS BITES <Picture><Picture><Picture> The European Union's Audiovisual Eureka programme is supporting the formation of 'Group de Monaco: the DVD Union of Authors, Developers and Distributors'. It is part of a concerted effort at European level to support the budding DVD format. The formation of DVD Union follows a conference on DVD mastering and distribution held at IMAGINA 98. It aims to give a voice to independent production houses and distributors and act as a bridge with European and other international organisations. Audiovisual Eureka is a pan-European Intergovernmental Organisation which acts as a bridge between the European Union and the non-EU Eureka member states in the audiovisual field. Contact: Mark Windy, Audiovisual Eureka, email m.j.windy@aveureka.be At the Replitech show in Utrecht last week we asked Cor Klik, director of industrial relations in the optical storage division of Philips Components, if he saw CD-RW cannibalising sales of DVD-ROM drives. After all, how many people are likely to buy both? His response was to tell us that Philips was working on a CD-RW drive that can read DVD-ROM discs. He said that he expected it to launch to the mass market in "four quarters from now." A potential killer app? The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has launched its 'Zero Tolerance' campaign, with the aim of taking a considerably heavier hand with CD pirates. The IFPI will work in partnership with other trade bodies including the Business Software Alliance and the Motion Picture Association to enforce the law. Until now the policy has been to seize pirated discs first and then look for the source, but the IFPI is increasingly finding that commercial replicators are turning out pirated discs, whether unwittingly or with the connivance of criminals. "Wherever we find pirated discs being manufactured we will take the highest possible action that the country's law will afford," Mike Edwards, director of operations at the IFPI, told IM. "There's a real crisis approaching if we don't take steps." Piracy costs the CD industry a potential $10-$11 billion per year in lost revenue, Edwards estimates, although discs sold have a combined street value of closer to $5 billion. Contact: Mike Edwards, IFPI, London, +44 171 878 7956; email: mike.edwards@ifpi.org. The European DVD Lab (see IM162) won plaudits at Milia last month for its innovative approach to DVD-Video. We hear that its digital film The Last Cowboy has been nominated for a BIMA award, although strangely it finds itself up against the might of Broderbund's Riven. Meanwhile the Lab has been touring mainstream film events with good results, and work is beginning to pipe in. A new title is in the works that will be ready by next Christmas ... the working name is Jack the Tourist. This time it's strictly DVD-ROM. RS Components' new web site at rswww.com, launched on 23 February, is already one of the UK's busiest sites with hits per day peaking at 7,000. Around 140,000 RS customers have started to use the service. The numbers have settled down to 3000 a day on average with a "significant number' of orders placed online.

To: Helios who wrote (30888)	3/14/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Helios for all the news that is posted on this thread....the fundies arent interested...news that people thought would pop the stock 2 or 3 dollars....had no effect and the stock goes down. and it isnt going anywhere until the big boyz are interested and the big boyz arent going to tell you they are interested until they are already in. If they ever get interested you will see it in the tape. Just make sure the volume isnt people covering their short...in anticipation of the next wave to short it... maybe you will get some of David's window dressing phenomenon sometime this month and no doubt you will see it end up around 20 next friday...unless we have a major crash. The philosophy of missing out on part of the ride up as long as you know there is a ride up...fits in with this stock. If you dont agree with that concept..then you just put it in a vault..dont watch it every day and maybe one day it will go back to 60. but remember this..... Do you believe a correction is coming? This stock corrects in a correction...but didnt participate in a bull trend.