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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33483)	5/28/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Toshiba to launch DVD-ROM, RAM drives in June ------------------------ we'll have to see about that "corporate wide commitment" comment... ------------------------ Toshiba Launches New DVD -ROM, RAM Drives Martyn Williams, Newsbytes 05/28/98 Newsbytes News Network (c) Copyright 1998 Post-Newsweek Business Information, Inc. All rights reserved. TOKYO, JAPAN, 1998 MAY 28 (NB). Toshiba Corp. [TOKYO:6502] has announced three new internal DVD -ROM drives for desktop and notebook personal computers. The company said the drives are being released in anticipation of market growth in desktop DVD as a result of the launch of Windows 98. "With the built-in support for DVD in Windows 98, we expect there will be much more demand for these drives," a Toshiba spokesman told Newsbytes. For notebook computers, the SD-C2102 is just 12.7mm high and weighs 265 grams. The drive can play DVD -ROM discs at 2.4 times speed and CD-ROM discs at 20 times speed for data transfer speeds of 3.27 megabytes per second and 3.00 megabytes per second respectively. Random access time is 160 milliseconds for DVD and 110 milliseconds for CD. For desktop computer use, the SD-M1202 is a half-height DVD -ROM drive offering an industry best 4.8 times speed playback on DVD -ROM disks and maximum data transfer of 6.53 megabytes per second. Playback of CD-ROM disks is at 32 times speed and maximum data transfer at 4.80 megabytes per second. The third drive announced represents the company's later DVD -RAM drive. Aimed at internal installation in desktop personal computers, the SD-W1101 features 1.2 times speed playback of both DVD -ROM and RAM discs and 16 speed playback of CD-ROM discs. The two DVD -ROM drives feature ATAPI interfaces while the DVD -RAM drive requires a SCSI-2 interface for connection to a personal computer. All the new drives are also compatible with DVD -Video, DVD -R, and major CD formats including CD-RW and CD-R. Commercial production of the new drives is scheduled to begin in June. As OEM products, a spokesman said, Toshiba did not announce the drive prices. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33483)	5/28/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Not a press release, but Divicom was demoing in the Tektronic booth at NAB............................................. divi.com

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (33483)	5/28/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Higher than expected CD-R sales should translate into DVD-R sales. But Grandma can't watch it without a DVD-ROM/player. Could drive sales. The DVD recordables......................................... onlineinc.com With so much attention being focused on rewritable DVD, potentially the most important of the writable DVD formats has been largely ignored. DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) has started slowly in the market, just as did CD-Recordable (CD-R), but could potentially become the storage and delivery medium of choice for everything from corporate data distribution to home video recording. Borrowing heavily from many of the technologies used in CD-R, DVD-R is a write-once optical system offering a data capacity of 3.95GB per disc, long media life, and-unlike rewritable cousins DVD-RAM and DVD+RW-physical compatibility with all DVD devices. But with the first available DVD-Recorder (DVR-S101) from Pioneer New Media Technologies costing $17,000 and DVD-R media priced at $50, the initial recordable DVD rollout clearly targets professional markets. Early adopters of the technology are DVD-ROM and DVD-Video developers, who are using DVD-R to create title prototypes, plus controlled applications, such as DVD-based kiosks. General consumer and corporate use of DVD-R, however, will remain a dream until hardware prices fall substantially, disc capacity expands to 4.7GB (promised by the end of 1998), and the installed base of DVD Video and DVD-ROM drives greatly increases. Most industry participants predict that if all of the pieces do fall into place, DVD-R will manifest great market potential by meeting needs not addressed by rewritable DVD formats. Given DVD-R's write-once nature and inherently low media cost (in volume), similar application uses to CD-R are expected, including premastering, data storage and distribution, archiving, and document imaging. Industry analysts like John Freeman, President of Strategic Marketing Decisions, envision exciting new application areas for consumers where DVD-R "might become part of a home PC entertainment workhorse that lets you put together multimedia videos of your kids and your last vacation and inexpensively send them to grandparents."