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To: E. Graphs who wrote (14200)	8/13/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

DVD gaining momentum USA TODAY - 08/12/98- Updated 04:13 PM ET The DVD format is gathering momentum toward what could be a breakthrough Christmas season. With this week's announcement that the two studio holdouts, Paramount and Fox, would have DVD movies out this fall, "there is a bandwagon and everybody's on it," says Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association. His group forecasts that by year's end, 1 million DVD players will have been sold to retailers in the USA. "This is a sign that the DVD format is going to be around for a while," says Ted Pine of InfoTech, a Woodstock, Vt.-based market research and consulting firm. InfoTech estimates that more than 1.2 million players will be sold worldwide this year. There are more than three dozen DVD players on the market ranging from $299 to $2,000. More than 4.7 million DVD movies have been sold. More video stores such as Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video are renting DVD players and movies, too. "More and more of our members are looking at bringing in DVD," says Cathy Scott of the Video Software Distributors Association. An association survey found that DVD awareness grew from 18% in November 1997 to 38% in April 1998. New DVDs due this fall include Godzilla (Columbia/TriStar $24.95), HBO's From the Earth to the Moon ($119.98, four discs) and Top Gun (Paramount, $29.99). o~~~ O

To: E. Graphs who wrote (14200)	8/13/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: Beachbumm	Respond to of 25814

When rairden receives the scary prize I will let him/her decide whether to divulge its nature. The new house is fun! But I had to stay in a motel for two weeks before I could get into it; then I had no phone service until early August because the developer hadn't got the engineers out to lay the cables. Then, I discovered that build-to-order means the consumer gets to jolly wait for his new computer! That's why I couldn't get back online. Anyway, it's good to be cruising the internet again, even if this market and one semi stock in particular SUCK eggs. da 'bumm