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To: JPM who wrote (32901)	5/4/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

WebTV service demoed on digital set-tops Microsoft and General Instrument will demonstrate the use of the WebTV service running on GI's next-generation digital set-top boxes at the National Cable Television Association trade show in Atlanta, Georgia. The companies also will demonstrate the use of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system in the prototype set-top boxes. news.com

To: JPM who wrote (32901)	5/4/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Nimbus doubles DVD production capacity for Divx...................... ijumpstart.com To ensure Nimbus is ready to handle demand for Divx discs and DVD media, the company will spend $22 million to increase annual manufacturing capacity to 28 million units by August. The contract with Digital Video Express specifies a certain number of discs Nimbus will manufacture this year, which Faulkner would not reveal, and includes provisions to look at demand for the discs at certain periods over the next five years. "It wouldn't make any sense for us to go out and buy 150 million units of capacity this week and sit on it," said Faulkner, describing the agreement as one that protects both companies. Faulkner said the $22 million investment to increase capacity will cost "about double the amount we spent last year to get into it [DVD]." And that manufacturing increase includes capacity for single-sided, dual-layer DVD-9 discs, which the company is producing today. Faulkner said manufacturing a Divx disc includes a small incremental cost over the price of producing a DVD-Video, but he would not reveal the price for competitive reasons. John Town, Nimbus vice president of R&D, said manufacturing a Divx disc takes four to five seconds longer than making a traditional DVD-Video disc. It requires adding code to the aluminum stripe in the lead in of a disc that checks a flag encoded to play the disc for two days. He compared it to adding information to the burst-cutting area of a DVD-ROM.