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To: Bob Strickland who wrote (33891)	6/17/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

C-Cube at Computex, 1998....... c-cube.com June 2 - 6 Taipei World Trade Center Taipei, Taiwan C-Cube Microsystems is attending Computex, 1998 in Taipei, Taiwan on June 2 to 6. We will be showing the ZIVA-PC product line, the only DVD solution that makes sense for notebooks. See your sales representative for more information. Or, to make a customer appointment, contact your local sales office. ------------- "the only DVD solution that makes sense for notebooks" Ahem, dare I mention LSI & Dell! Aparently LSI made sense to Dell. Hello Mr. Cube IR? What the heck was that? Oh yeah, the HiVal loss to Sigma is nothing to worry about... OK amittedly, I tossed aside a few Sigma wins, but now they've actually taken away a customer. Hello Mr. Cube IR? What the heck was that? ---- Dave (a bit pessimistic today)

To: Bob Strickland who wrote (33891)	6/17/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

DVD needs more gamer apps.................................... user17.promise.com That's the promise of DVD. But it's a promise that has been slow to become a reality. For the uninitiated, DVD stands for either digital video disk or digital versatile disk, depending on whom you're talking to. A DVD looks like a standard CD-ROM or audio CD disk. However, it can hold more than seven times more data, which means a game that fits onto seven CD-ROMs can be compressed to one DVD-ROM disk, or you can have video segments in a game that look like they've come straight off a video disk, with twice the sharpness of a VCR tape. So, given its potential, where are all the DVD games? "It's been a slow train coming," said Ted Pine, president of Infotech Inc., a marketing research firm. Worldwide, there were only 59 DVD-ROM products of all stripes at the end of last year, he said. That number should grow to nearly 500 by the end of this year. But only about 50 of those products available around Christmas will be games. Very few of those 50 products will be made specifically for the DVD format; most will be pre-existing multi-CD-ROM games that have been enhanced and consolidated onto a single DVD disk. DVD versions of "Riven" (the sequel to "Myst") and "The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time," both from Red Orb, are due out later this year. Interplay has a DVD version of "Virtual Pool 2" and will put one of its "Star Trek" games on DVD. Ubi Soft Entertainment said it has four titles coming out by October, including a guitar tutorial and a juiced-up version of the action-adventure game "Tonic Trouble," previously released in PC and console versions. Microsoft has a DVD version of its "Encarta" encyclopedia. The DVD version of the "Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia" is scheduled to ship soon. A spot check of more than a dozen other software developers found that most had no immediate plans for DVD products.