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To: Stoctrash who wrote (34188)	7/8/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

First HDTVs coming to the US. About $7K at your local video store........ koreaherald.co.kr 07-09-98 Info Tech Briefs Samsung to Ship Digital TV to U.S. Samsung Electronics plans to start shipping digital TV sets to the United States next month. Samsung said it will be the first TV manufacturer to market digital TVs in the U.S., where the first digital TV signals are scheduled to be transmitted in November. Initially, the company will ship products with 55-inch screens carrying a price tag of $7,999. But the company expects the street price to be below $7,000. With a 1,080-pixel resolution, Samsung's DTV supports all of the 18 formats specified by the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), the American digital TV standardization body. It also supports diversified sources of video and audio, including digital versatile disc (DVD). The company said it has already arranged distribution systems in 10 regions where DTV broadcasts are scheduled to begin. DTV production will begin this month at Samsung's plants in Mexico.

To: Stoctrash who wrote (34188)	7/8/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

CREAF dxr2 PC-DVD with CUBE inside for $199.......... Creative Drives PC-DVD to the Consumer's Desktop PR Newswire - July 08, 1998 07:15 Jump to first matched term Award-Winning PC-DVD Encore Now Available to the Mass Market at $199.99 After Rebate MILPITAS, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), the world's leading provider of multimedia products for the PC, today announced that it is now making its award-winning PC-DVD Encore(TM) Dxr2 available to the mass consumer market at a new low price of US$229.99 -- US$199.99 with an end-user rebate offer of $30.00, good through September 7, 1998. PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 provides the consumer with the hardware and software needed to watch DVD movies on their PC. PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 includes Creative's PC DVD-ROM drive which is fully compatible with all CD-ROM formats and the Dxr2 card which delivers cinema quality DVD video to the desktop. Creative's PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 has received top honors worldwide including the prestigious Windows Magazine "Win100" award and the "World-Class" award from PC World. PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 also garnered the "Editors' Choice" award from Computer Reseller News -- which singled out Creative's PC-DVD solution as one of the easiest upgrades to install and use, and one of the fastest DVD-ROM drives tested. "The Encore's video performance is excellent," raves c/net Gamecenter. "When all is said and done, Creative Labs' Encore kit is an exceptional value." "Creative is focused on bringing big-screen theater quality to the desktop PC and making its superior PC-DVD technology more accessible and affordable to consumers," said Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and chief executive officer of Creative Technology, Ltd. "There is growing consumer interest for PC-DVD technology and Creative is thrilled to be able to present an exceptional, low-cost solution to its customers." Features and Benefits An overview of the features and benefits that comprise Creative's PC-DVD Encore's sophisticated architecture include: * Simultaneous viewing of video on a PC and TV with composite or S-Video outputs * Line-doubling to 60 frames per second, including vertical and horizontal filtering and dynamic interpolation of up to 1280 X 1024 full-screen resolution * Runs at twice the speed of first generation DVD drives * Interfaces with Dolby Digital receivers for room-filling 5.1 channel Dolby Digital audio * Fully supports all popular CD-ROM formats, including previously unsupported CD-Recordable media and CD-RW * Blazing CD-ROM drive transfer rate of 20x and 100ms access time Creative Labs was the first company to introduce a DVD-ROM upgrade kit when it launched PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 in March, 1997. With the introduction of its second-generation PC-DVD Encore, Creative solidified its position in the retail channel. Creative's PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 is available through its extensive distribution and retail network. The rebate offer is valid beginning July 1. More.......... newsalert.com

To: Stoctrash who wrote (34188)	7/8/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DVD Player rental programs. Can they make DVD a household word??????????????????????????????? onlineinc.com Player Rental Programs Crop up as DVD-Video Popularity Spreads Major motion picture studios and electronics manufacturers are counting on the winter gift-giving season to propel DVD-Video products into the mainstream. The industry's optimism about the future of DVD is fueled by the technology's impressive first-year sales, which far outpaced the debuts of both the compact disc and videocassette. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA), DVD player sales to U.S. dealers exceeded 437,000 units in 1997-12 times the number of CD players sold in their first year and twice the VCRs distributed in that product's first two years. Consumers purchased 340,000 of those DVD players last year and began shopping for DVD movies in stores and online. Sales may have been strong, but there are still millions of Americans to whom DVD remains virtually unknown, and many of these potential customers appear to place a high priority on home entertainment. CEMA reports that more than 15 percent of U.S. households have installed home theater systems, for which DVD is a format far superior to VHS. Based on this successful debut, cinema production companies are stepping up their investment in the burgeoning technology this summer in preparation for the busiest selling season-September through December. Most film studios have formed alliances with DVD manufacturers and joined the DVD Video Group, a 40-member organization that seeks to promote the technology across product lines. "It's been a constant struggle to create awareness, but I have confidence DVD is here to stay," says the group's president, Emiel N. Petrone. "DVD delivers exactly what it promises." In addition to featuring wide-screen viewing, DVD offers viewers high-resolution pictures, theater-style audio, multilanguage programming, and CD-like durability. Many traditional "first-buy" customers are shopping for their DVD titles online. VideoServe.com, a popular Internet video site, started the first online showcase devoted to DVD products in January, and the company reports that DVD is already accounting for 11 percent of the site's sales. Petrone says these initial customers are also purchasing primarily the higher-end hardware units. Many of the more basic DVD players, competitively priced around $399, are still on the shelves. Petrone says DVD Video Group members are attempting to lure average customers by switching their focus from retail sales to the rental market. Video stores are seen as the key to bringing DVD into the mass market by allowing consumers to sample the technology without buying, says Petrone, also a Philips executive vice president. Philips and Polygram were the first to team up to hit the rental stores, he says. They were followed by Toshiba and Ingram, and most recently the Time Warner Entertainment Company. All the major studios now have DVD divisions and the number of movie titles has gone from 800 in 1997 to 1,200 this year. Time Warner recently launched a nationwide rental program after test-marketing in five cities in the spring. Warner's program teams the video division with several hardware manufacturers to provide starter kits for rental stores containing between two and eight DVD players, and 40 to 100 movies titles, depending on how much each store owner is willing to invest in the new format. Time Warner predicts DVD will be in a million homes by early 1999. Gail Becker, a Warner Home Video representative, says, "It may not be a household name yet, but the growth in DVD has shown that this is becoming a mass market product." -Lauren Wiley

To: Stoctrash who wrote (34188)	7/9/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 50808

" What changed your tune? " Technically: A Double Bottom was formed in June. Fundamentally: Cube is positioned for dynamic growth. Price Action: Very favorable Seasonable time period. When do I sell? Sometime in the middle of August. Catalyst for a rise in the share price: A simple meeting of consensus earnings expectations next week and a temporary easing of investor anxieties over the impact of the Asian Economic Crisis. Market Outlook: We are in a short term blow off period where the Dow trades above 10,000 and the Nasdaq trades above 2000. As the Market gets real irrationally exuberant, small caps, like Cube, will participate. Key: It's almost two and a half years and Cube is still immersed in a vicious Bear Market. To break this long term Bear Trend ( and the trend is your friend, especially when you invest in Cube ), Cube needs to break $35 decisively or it will hit lower lows later in the year. Intangible Factors: Cube is in my blood. It's very positive the way she is behaving here. Cube must continue to heal a little while longer before she gets energized to the upside.