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To: John Rieman who wrote (31536)	3/27/1998 4:38:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

CD-ROM prices plummetting. DVD-ROM is on the way in. news.com <<Meanwhile, DVD prices have already dropped enough that they by the end of the year, DVD will be showing up on some midrange PCs in addition to high-end systems, Pine said. "The enthusiast buyer is getting a DVD-ROM drive today. But towards the end of the year, you're going to see DVD drives more in the mid-market system. The June release of Windows 98, with its built-in support for DVD technology, will also spur DVD sales, Pine said. DVD drives can store up to 17GB of data, enough to hold entire movies and play them back at much higher resolution than VCRs, as well as play music and read information off older CD-ROM discs. >>