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To: shane forbes who wrote (11061)	3/21/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: Grand Poobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Thanks, Shane. I was able to find an adequate explanation following your link and ending up at the C-Cube page. :-( c-cube.com It was not extremely technical but was sufficient for my purposes. It confirmed my suspicion that the read/write process for DVD was basically an adaptation of CD-ROM technology. This quest was initiated by an announcement by Cirrus Logic that they were getting into the DVD arena: techweb.com In the article they say they are going to announce a DVD controller that uses PRML technology. PRML is a disk-drive technology, and I did not understand its application to DVD. I discussed this over on the CRUS thread: www4.techstocks.com Since the article on Cirrus and DVD was not really an official announcement, there was not a lot of detail. I couldn't tell exactly what their chip is supposed to do and whether it would compete with LSI and C-Cube's chips. From what I understand of Cirrus Logic's technology, I would think that it would, since they have expertise in MPEG video and CD-ROM controllers. G.P.