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To: j g cordes who wrote (31566)	3/28/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

WebTV doesn't use full speed MPEG video, yet. Not enough bandwidth. The Sony Playstation uses LSI's chips, but not a DVD chip, yet. Next gen. of Sony should have a DVD drive.

To: j g cordes who wrote (31566)	3/28/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

LSI gets it's first DVD win, Sony............................ March 30, 1998, TechWeb News -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSI's decode silicon snags DVD win By David Lammers Tokyo - Sony Corp. put second-generation DVD players on the Japan market last week, and LSI Logic Corp. said the Sony offerings represent the first major design wins for LSI's MPEG-2 decoding silicon. The market for DVD players is expected to roughly triple this year, to about 2.5 million units, as prices for the players and for DVD-ROM decline, and software authoring picks up. The second-generation systems are based on much more highly integrated ICs: the decoding engine, a drive controller, MCU, DRAMs and a few supporting chips are all that is required for the drives coming on the market this year. "Compared with Sony's first-generation DVD player, the MPEG-2 decode IC is about half the price, and includes much more functions," said Tadao Fukushima, a DVD product marketing manager at LSI Logic's Japan subsidiary. In volumes, the decode engine, dubbed L64020, will cost less than $25. techweb.com