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To: DiViT who wrote (31676)	3/31/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

CUBE supplies Tatung for their consumer DVDs. Tatung Expands PCI-based, SPARC Systems Line With New Dual-Processing Workstations and Servers Business Wire - March 31, 1998 14:18 MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998--Tatung Science & Technology Inc. (TSTI), celebrating its tenth year of commitment to the SPARC systems market, today introduced the COMPstation U60-2300, a dual-processing, Sun Ultra 60-compatible workstation/server that expands the company's new PCI-based product line. Now available, the COMPstation U60-2300 broadens Tatung's use of the PCI I/O bus as an integral new design component of the company's SPARC-based workstations and servers, which are installed at tens of thousands of user sites throughout North America. newsalert.com

To: DiViT who wrote (31676)	3/31/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

From yesterday's Electronic News. For a full text of the article, follow the link and click on "The Antenna." sumnet.com <<IBM, C-CUBE MPEG-2 ENCODING WAR RAGES--IBM Microelectronics is unleashing a new family of MPEG-2 encoders this week and basking in the glow of technical superiority for it. Though $60 MPEG-2 decoders are ubiquitous and multi-sourced, the more difficult, start of the transmission and content creation encoding is fielding prices that range between $1,500 and $2,500, according to IBM's Don Leake. IBM finds just one other horse in this race: C-Cube Microsystems, and they both will head to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas next week as the broadcasters get down to business about who they will go to for digital TV broadcasting systems. These systems must have an MPEG-2 encoder and 10 of them must be in place by next fall, as per the FCC. IBM and C-Cube each say they don't release pricing because their competitor doesn't, but the matter of price got a bit more interesting on the C-Cube side last week. C-Cube showed a combination encoder and decoder last week, and said pricing on it would enable $300 PC cards with the capability by the end of year. Both companies also are expecting Sony and LSI Logic to get into the field soon. Stay tuned. >> <<SNIP>> << MPEG-1 GETS A BOOST--With all the talk these days about MPEG-2 and the forthcoming MPEG-4 standard, MPEG-1 sometimes is discarded by the wayside. However, as this week will bear out, not all is lost in the MPEG-1 camp. Array Microsystems said that its VideoOne Recorder MPEG1 video and audio capture card has been designed into the NetworkTV system from Datafleet. The NetworkTV system, just out this week, supports both NTSC and PAL standards and delivers video to desktop PCs over any local or wide area networks (LANs or WANs). Utilizing Internet Protocol Multicast network the PCs can receive signal and display live video without consuming excessive bandwidth, Array claims. The NetworkTV system can be used with any PC running Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT. >>