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To: DiViT who wrote (33524)	5/30/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

It appears that DVD is here to stay, and this is being enforced on the player side by Divx's constant delays. The good thing about the Divx delays is that it allows Cube to get ready to make decoder chips for it to, if they so desire. I think that this is looking good. But what are Cubes competitors? Do they dominate the encoder/decoder market like they used to? Does anyone have any idea of their market share?

To: DiViT who wrote (33524)	5/30/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

>even a 200-MHz Pentium MMX PC should suffice as a host system. Talk about over kill. My Creative DXR2 is in an AMD K-5 75 Mhz/16 MB and works great, if Windows 95 keeps running. I'm hopping the LINUX drivers show up soon. I'll bet it would run with a 486 if you could find one with a PCI bus.

To: DiViT who wrote (33524)	5/30/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Philips in a buying mood By Reuters Special to CNET NEWS.COM May 30, 1998, 1:25 p.m. PT AMSTERDAM--Philips Electronics said today that it would start to look for acquisition opportunities. "We'll carefully look around to see if we can strengthen the organization by means of an acquisition or of a cooperation," Philips chairman Cor Boonstra said in a brief interview on Dutch television. Asked whether Philips had concrete acquisition projects, he replied: "There are no talks yet." Since Boonstra took over as chairman in October 1996 and promised to deal with loss-makers, underperformers, and noncore businesses, Philips has made a series of major disposals. Just over one week ago, it agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in music and entertainment group PolyGram to Canada's Seagram. Many market players expected Philips would use the proceeds of the sale to buy back its shares. More............... news.com

To: DiViT who wrote (33524)	5/31/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Europe, Headend in the sky. They need encoders......................... multichannel.com Weekly Edition for June 1, 1998: UIH Plans Headend in Sky for Europe By WILLIAM MAHONEY London -- The European division of global cable operator United International Holdings Inc. is about to unveil an extensive strategy to launch a digital-programming-distribution project in Europe styled after Tele-Communications Inc.'s Headend in the Sky venture in the United States. Mark Schneider, president and CEO of UIH's United Pan-Europe Communication (UPC), based here, confirmed that UPC is finalizing plans to launch a "digital center to distribute programming and Internet product to digital set-tops," with the service to be uplinked from the Amsterdam area. Schneider said final negotiations with equipment vendors and programmers are under way, which will likely result in a formal announcement of the project shortly. "We did an RFP [request for proposals] in January, and we're pretty much done with the process of selecting the equipment vendors and the location, and even the boxes that we want to use," Schneider said. "We're focusing on finishing that process by July. As long as our orders are in by July, we figure that we can launch within a year." Tony White, vice president and managing director of General Instrument (Europe) Ltd. in Reading, England, which is one of the companies in the running, called the UPC effort "a project of extreme importance" to the European industry.