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To: BillyG who wrote (35165)	8/12/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Lehman's Gumport today........................... exchange2000.com Elsewhere, C-Cube Microsystems 8/10 confirmed it had won the DIRECTV Los Angeles Broadcast Center (LABC) compression business. The potential of that win was a key reason for our recent upgrade of CUBE. We are still sizing the importance of LABC, but our first impression is that the DIRECTV relationship alone could boost CUBE's total sales by 10-15% over the next 2 years. read $60 to $90M in the next year ... CUBE is a slightly lower margin story with difficult issues in China which will keep 3Q EPS flat/down, but the DIRECTV order highlights its opportunity as the key play in digital video.

To: BillyG who wrote (35165)	8/13/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Creative's DVD-RAM drive doesn't have an MPEG-2 decoder........... zdnet.com <<The only major limitation is that the kit does not include any MPEG-2 decoding. If you want to watch DVD movies on your system, you'll need to add a card for this function.>> Creative Labs PC-DVD RAM It looks like a CD-ROM drive, but this one-fits-all offering from Creative Labs handles all DVD and CD formats. By Alfred Poor, PC Magazine August 12, 1998 It sounds like a snake oil sales pitch. Get one drive that will solve your backup needs (with more than 5GB per $30 cartridge), read DVD-ROM and DVD movie disks, and read all your different CD formats including audio, CD-ROM, and CD-R. Get the drive, plus a PCI bus-mastering SCSI-2 adapter, for $500 (street). Too good to be true? No, it's the new Creative Labs PC-DVD RAM, the first DVD-RAM kit on the market. The kit consists of an internal drive and the Adaptec AVA-2902I adapter card. The drive looks like a typical CD-ROM drive except for the large DVD-RAM logo on the drive's door. Press the eject button and the drive sticks out a tray that is clearly different from what is contained within your average CD-ROM drive. The tray is slotted as if for a CD-ROM caddy but designed to accept the DVD-RAM media cartridges. (Double-sided DVD-RAM disks come sealed in cartridges to protect the media from handling damage.) There is also a narrow slot that accepts bare disks such as DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. The drive is made by Matsushita and is compatible with a wide range of DVD and CD formats. Although Creative Labs does not list it in the kit's specifications, the drive can also be used to read and write PD (Phase change Dual) media used in the Matsushita PD/CD drive. DVD-RAM uses a similar phase-change technology to make the disks read/write/erasable, and this backward compatibility means that the drive can read a wide range of existing optical disk formats.