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To: Grand Poobah who wrote (5442)	3/30/1998 10:24:00 AM
From: Bosco	Respond to of 8193

Dear G.P. - thx for a indepth commentary on the PRs. I am not a technie, so most of the originals have gone way over my head. So, it is good to get a response from Frank and you further more down to earth analysis. A bit of speculation on my part. While 3700 may not be real PRML, as people know it, it can also mean evolution - with additional patents in the works. I am beginning to think that CRUS has a very viable strategy in getting patents and dishing out licensing deals, which can be far more lucrative than manufacturing. rgds Bosco

To: Grand Poobah who wrote (5442)	3/30/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Calvin Scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8193

GP, Check out Oak Technology. Oak and Cirrus have been fighting tooth and nail on the CD ROM front. I have not been following Oak of late and really don't know what they are into but my guess is that they will be right there with Cirrus on DVD. Calvin Scott

To: Grand Poobah who wrote (5442)	3/30/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: mpegleg	Respond to of 8193

> Does anyone know what competition they face on the controller side? Philips has the SAA7335 which does some of the read channel functions, though I don't think its as highly integrated as the Cirrus part. Toshiba also has a chipset performing these functions (TA1236F is an RF amp, TC9420F is a servo processor, TC90A19F is a data processor (ECC), etc.). They will surely be pursuing the same level of integration as Cirrus. They did the same thing on the A/V side - started with 5 chips that is now heading to one with their Timpani chip. >"content scramble system (CSS)," >I presume this is the encoding system that Hollywood >wanted to prevent DVD's from being copied. Does anyone >know for sure? Yes, you have CSS right, but I think that only part of it goes in this read channel chip. Wouldn't make much sense to decrypt it here, and pass it to an external MPEG-2 A/V chip unencrypted!