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To: stockbug who wrote (33166)	5/12/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DVD-ROM numbers being cut. Blame it on low priced PCs.................. ijumpstart.com DVD-ROM drives will not surpass CD-ROMs as the predominant optical playback device on a PC until 2001, according to Framingham, Mass. market researcher International Data Corp. (IDC) At that time, the company expects DVD-ROM drives to account for 68 percent of all drives sold. Wolfgang Schlichting, IDC analyst, believes CD-RW and the decline in PC pricing are contributing to the slow adoption of DVD-ROM. "We had to redo some of our forecasts on the transition from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM, as the below-$1000 PC segment is really expanding at a significant rate," Schlichting said. "The budget for DVD is simply not there in new system configurations before the year 2000 or 2001." As recently as January, IDC had projected 10 million DVD-ROM shipments would ship this year, but the company has altered that prediction to 7 million. Similarly, the company scaled back its prediction for unit shipments in '99 from 40 million to 34 million. (IDC, 508/872-8200)