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To: BillyG who wrote (31507)3/27/1998 10:04:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50808
 
Virgin Entertainment Group To Open First Virgin Megastore in New Orleans' French Quarter

-- 20,000 movie and music titles on video and laserdisc, including new releases, classics, international cinema, anime, documentaries and the Criterion Collection on laserdisc -- and a huge selection of titles on DVD;

-- Over 2,000 entertainment and productivity multimedia software titles for PC, Mac and Sony Playstation; and

-- 10 video/laser/DVD viewing stations that allow customers to preview individual movies;



To: BillyG who wrote (31507)3/27/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: DiViT  Respond to of 50808
 
Sonic Forms "Corporate DVD Partnership" with Creative Labs and Margi Systems

biz.yahoo.com

NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1998--Sonic Solutions, the leader in DVD production systems, announced today that it has formed a Corporate DVD Partners Program with Creative Labs, Inc., Margi Systems, and other corporations to foster the use of the DVD format for corporate and industrial applications. Creative and Margi are working with Sonic to help promote the proliferation of desktop, notebook, set-top and hand-held DVD playback devices as well as DVD-recordable and DVD-RAM applications among corporate users.
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According to PC Data, Creative has captured more than 60 percent of the multimedia upgrade market which includes PC DVD drive technology. Creative is focusing on the desktop market with its industry-leading PC- DVD Encore solution which includes the innovative Dxr2 Decoder board and the Creative Blaster(R) DVD -ROM drive.
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Funny, neither Creative nor Margi systems has an encoder solution...