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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (35230)	8/17/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Home Depot and DVD... Multimedia 2000 Announces The Home Depot Home Improvement 123 DVD ; Home Improvement Projects Demonstrated in Full-Screen Full-Motion Video 08/17/98 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire) SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1998--Multimedia 2000, Inc. today announced the shipment of the Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3 DVD , the ultimate home improvement tool. Featuring more than 250 projects, this title gives step-by-step instruction, brought to life by the home improvement experts at The Home Depot. "For most Americans, our homes are our most important investment," said Paul Bader, president of Multimedia 2000. "The Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3 DVD empowers homeowners to maintain and increase their value by demonstrating the details of each project on the screen." The Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3 DVD contains more than 250 projects in the following categories: -- Cabinets and Countertops -- Ceilings and Walls -- Electrical -- Exterior Maintenance -- Floors -- Insulating and Weatherproofing -- Painting and Staining -- Planning and Design -- Plumbing -- Shelving and Storage -- Wallpapering The title features full-screen full-motion video segments of many of the projects, and detailed narrated slideshows of the rest. The projects also feature safety tips, buyers' guides, skill ratings, and even "Homer's Hindsights" which give humorous accounts of common mistakes made by beginners. All these features make Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3 DVD an effective and enjoyable way for homeowners to learn home improvement techniques. The Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3 DVD is available immediately from consumer electronics and software retailers with a suggested retail price of $44.95, or by ordering directly from Multimedia 2000 at 206/622-5530 or www.m-2k.com. About Multimedia 2000: Multimedia 2000, Inc. is a newly formed private company that acquired the assets of Multicom Publishing, Inc. Multimedia 2000 creates and distributes high-quality, award-winning multimedia DVD -ROM and CD-ROM titles, developed with some of the most respected consumer brands in the world such as Better Homes and Gardens, American Express Publishing and The Home Depot. Multimedia 2000, Inc., 1100 Olive Way, Suite 1250, Seattle, WA 98101. 206/622-5530, 206/622-4380 FAX. URL: m-2k.com About The Home Depot: Founded in 1978, Atlanta-based Home Depot currently operates 680 stores throughout North America. For the past five years, Fortune magazine has named The Home Depot, America's Most Admired Retailer. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:HD) and is included in the Standard & Poor's Index. CONTACT: Multimedia 2000, Inc. Mike Whybark, 206/622.5530 x125 pr@m-2k.com 11:01 EDT AUGUST 17, 1998

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (35230)	8/17/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Intel and Microsoft are building Hoover. I hope it doesn't su@@..................................... zdnet.com Mondo Cool Mondo What? Bill got a chance to see an i740-based AGP graphics card up close and personal. He sent Alice a note. It read, "How do you spell 'Bleeechhhhhh'?" But there's insight available even from the mundane because Bill's figured out just what's happening here. Intel and Microsoft are hedging their bets on the computer industry and secretly designing a game machine, code-named Hoover, as a joint project. However, they're trying out the various components in the computer marketplace. That's the only reason for a CPU like the Celeron and a graphics accelerator like the i740. Think of it. They put the processor, graphics, and sound on a 5x7 motherboard. Then add a self-booting ROM BIOS, a joystick port, a modem, and a DVD player. Sell the whole shebang for $399 as a video/Internet/game box (with the appropriate software either in ROM or on CD) and--voil…--they have a second income. And a flock of meteors may penetrate the atmosphere, impact the earth, and radically change life as we know it, remember. Bill was going to send the wonder twins a T-shirt, but he's been designing a new one on a Celeron system with an i740 graphics adapter, so it might take a little while.

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (35230)	8/17/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

CalMike was showing with a lot of Digital Video vendors at NAB....... calmike.com MRC Radios Carrying DiviCom and Comark Programming In another active demonstration, two channels of standard definition digital video programming using video codecs from DiviCom are being transported on a 2-GHz DAR45 link via cabling between the MRC booth and the Comark Digital Services booth, also in the Las Vegas Convention Center. MRC also has a live 13-GHz link to carry programming from the DiviCom booth in the Sands Convention Center and a Comark digital television transmitter placed at KXLV in Las Vegas. Sony, Lucent, Tiernan Equipment in MRC Demonstrations The DAR45 is also being used as a 2-GHz transmission link to carry two channels of SDDI programming using Sony video equipment and Lucent Linkrunner DS-3 formatting equipment. The transmissions originate at the Sony demonstration center in Bally's Resort and are received by a DAR45 receiver at the MRC booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center. In support of the industry's growing interest in digital electronic newsgathering, MRC is also presenting its digital ENG capabilities in a technology demonstration that includes MPEG-2 compression equipment from Tiernan Corporation.