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Technology Stocks : Sigma Designs- Up 50% per Month- Why? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DELT1970 who wrote (381)	5/23/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: Alex Dubrovsky	Respond to of 849

Here is an article from www.techweb.com about PC Cinema from Tiger Direct which used RealMagic Ventura card from Sigma Designs. The article stresses the fact that the system has great DVD playback quality. To get a link to the article go to www.techweb.com and do search on DVD or TigerDirect or PC Cinema. June 01, 1998, TechWeb News Add Functionality to Your Boardroom By Jonathan Blackwood Hook your boardroom or home-theater sound and television system up to TigerDirect's Tiger PC Cinema, a full-fledged AMD-K6-powered computer. Available in 200MHz and 233MHz models, PC Cinema systems start at just $999. The Tiger PC Cinema gives you the ability to surf the Net, access reference CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, and run PowerPoint or any other Win95 applications. It's also a terrific game system. The 233MHz Tiger PC Cinema I tested came with 32MB of RAM, a 2X DVD-ROM player and a 4.3GB hard disk. This PC doesn't come with a monitor; it's intended to be used with an existing television or monitor and can drive either a monitor or a TV-or both at the same time. Its DVD playback was outstanding, as was its audio CD playback. Although the NTSC output was a bit fuzzy, it was perfectly fine for Web surfing; S-Video would improve the picture quality for Win95 purposes, but my test TV didn't have the necessary connector. The components I used to test the Tiger PC Cinema also didn't include AC-3 (Dolby Digital 5.1-channel) sound, but the sound quality was truly exceptional even in plain old Dolby Pro Logic Surround Sound. The unit comes with an infrared cordless keyboard and a remote control. The Tiger PC Cinema earned a WinScore 2.0 mark of 52-on the low end for 233MHz Socket Seven systems. In particular, its cached disk performance was low. But that performance was more than adequate for this system's intended uses. This is a first-generation product, and I enjoyed testing it. The TigerDirect Tiger PC Cinema 233 doesn't offer quite the versatility of Gateway 2000's Destination Big Screen PC/TV D6-266, but its DVD playback was superior, and it's a fraction of the Destination's cost. If it also had a CD-Recordable drive, the Tiger PC Cinema 233 would be an awesome platform for the boardroom or home. --Quick View-- TigerDirect Tiger PC Cinema 233 Bottom Line: An inexpensive way to add Internet, DVD playback and presentation capabilities to a boardroom or home theater Price: $1,399 Platforms: 95 Pros: Outstanding DVD playback quality Cons: No USB ports Strongest Rival: Gateway 2000 Destination Big Screen PC/TV D6-266 TigerDirect, 800-830-0056, 305-229-1119. Winfo #768 Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc.

To: DELT1970 who wrote (381)	5/28/1998 8:40:00 AM
From: Grantcw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 849

Grobnette, From one of your prior messages it seemed like you also heard the conference call. If you did, I have a question. Didn't management say that we have some kind of chip partnering agreement with Intel and that it would be announced during the first week of May to coincide with some kind of trade show? Does anything know about this agreement? Seems like we may get a boost next week if things go well. Too bad that market seems like it's undergoing a correction. SIGM may be stuck in the dulldrums for a few months. I guess this gives us some time to accumulate shares, eh? I won't be buying any more for a while until I think the correction is false or over. See ya, Grant