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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.S. who wrote (32567)	4/22/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Buy INX puts! Everything points to a correction. Time travel has confirmed this (as well as a solid future for DVD!). What is INX? Ty, Jan

To: J.S. who wrote (32567)	4/22/1998 5:21:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

No C-Cube here................................................. e-town.com New DVD players Pioneer, known for steadfast support of the laserdisc, has embraced LD's little cousin, DVD, with a passion. The company will introduce six Open DVD players this year, three under the Elite brand and three for Pioneer. They range from the simple DV-500 ($499) to an LD/DVD combi player (DVL-909, $1099) to the first THX-certified DVD player, the Elite DV-09, due in May for around $2000. For those of us who remember the Pioneer LD-S2, the ultimate LD player, this is Pioneer's stake in ground as the best DVD player ever built. A unit opened up for viewing was loaded with so much metal for disc stabilization and interference blocking that it's likely to trigger hernias among the unsuspecting. We saw it in action on a new Elite projection set. The "Bad Boys" picture looked great, even though we were in a room loaded with distracting ambient light. Why the Faroudja DV-1000 is worth five times the price is one of life's mysteries. Along with THX certification, the player is loaded with techie gimcracks including 10-bit 27 MHz video DACs, component frame digital noise reduction, Y/C timing adjustment, and Legato Link audio D/A conversion with dual 96 kHz/24-bit audio DACs. It's DTS compatible too. Joining the DV-09 DVD player is the DVL-91 combi player ($1700) which should reach stores any day now. It replaces the DVL-90. It has 10-bit video DACs but 96 khz/20-bit audio DACs. The combi has component video outs, Virtual Dolby Surround and is DTS compatible. The "entry level" Elite DVD player, the DV-05 ($900, due November), is Pioneer's second THX-certified player. In the regular non-Elite Pioneer line, players include the $499 DV-500 with 10-bit video DAC and 96 kHz/20-bit DAC; the DV-606D ($599) with built-in Dolby decoder, 96 kHz, 24-bit audio and component video out; and the LD/DVD/CD combi, DVL-909 ($1099) with component video out. No matter how hard we looked, we couldn't find a Divx DVD player. We looked curtains, under desks ... just couldn't find it. Someone told us we'd have better luck if we traveled to Glenview, Illinois to the Zenith showroom. They also suggested that if we wanted to actually see the unit, we should bring along 25 bucks to help them pay Zenith's electric bill. (We know that one was nasty, but what the heck!)