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To: DiViT who wrote (35119)	8/13/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Toshiba, Avid Working On DVD-Software Production I wonder whose encoders? August 13, 1998 Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO (Nikkei)--Toshiba Corp. and Avid Japan Inc., the Japanese subsidiary of U.S.-based Avid Technology Inc., have begun jointly developing and taking orders for a DVD-software production system. The new system includes Avid's software for processing and editing video images on a personal computer, and offers functions from 3-D title creation to analog-to-digital signal conversion. [MPEG-2 encoding?] A 15-million-yen price tag, which is one-tenth the price of conventional systems, brings down the overall cost of producing DVD software to 100 from 1,000 yen per disc. Toshiba will manufacture the equipment, and Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. (7735), Toshiba Engineering Corp. and Avid sales agent Ikegami Tsushinki Co. (6771) will market the systems. The companies are targeting 1998 sales of about 500 systems, primarily to small and midsize software-creation firms. (The Nikkei Industrial Daily Thursday edition) <<Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. -- 08-13-98>> [Copyright 1998, Nikkei America]