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To: DavidG who wrote (35172)	8/13/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

DVD-ROM. Standard feature in 1999???????????????? detnews.com "Customers won't know the value of the DVD until they go to use something with full-motion video. And then they'll go, WOW!" says Jim Reese, a salesman at Dearborn's Best Buy, which offers Compaq and Hewlett-Packard PCs with DVD-ROM drives. DVD-ROM drives also can be bought separately to be inserted into your computer for about $300. "Now the DVD is a luxury," Reese says. "But within a year it'll be a standard feature." Cahner In-Stat Group projects that DVD-ROM drives will outship CD-ROM drives worldwide in 2000. The good news is that the new DVD-ROM drives can still play your CDs. "This is a natural progression," says Michelle Abraham, a senior analyst at the marketing research firm. "This is evolution, not revolution." DVD-equipped computers follow the release early last year of DVD players for television. Movies on DVDs are sold for $20 to $30 each. In late fall, Blockbuster plans to start renting DVD movies and players in select metro Detroit stores, says spokeswoman Liz Greene. In addition to stoking the desire for more DVD movie titles, the availability of DVD-equipped computers is unleashing a new generation of exotic computer games.