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To: DiViT who wrote (35618)	9/1/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 50808

uh, DELL? :-)

To: DiViT who wrote (35618)	9/1/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Hitachi DVD-RAM camcorder!!!!!!! news.com But does it include MPEG-2 encoding? Camcorder adding DVD-RAM By Kurt Oeler Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 1, 1998, 10:15 a.m. PT update Hitachi plans to market a digital camcorder that uses DVD-RAM instead of videotape by the end of next year, potentially a breakthrough step into the consumer market for the high-capacity storage medium. The Japanese company recently unveiled a prototype model, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which quoted company sources in reporting Hitachi's ambitions. The use of DVD-RAMs (digital versatile disc-random access memory), which can hold 5.2GB or up to one hour of moving images on a double-sided disk, could open up yet another avenue for the so-called convergence movement. Because the disks can be edited, footage shot with a DVD camcorder could be manipulated with common software applications. Already, DVD-ROM (read-only memory) drives are becoming more and more common in higher-end PCs, and companies like Toshiba are moving ahead in the manufacture DVD-RAM drives for desktop systems. Windows 98's built-in support for DVD-RAM is also expected to play a role in the drives' incorporation into PCs. On the other hand, DVD-RAM's future has been clouded by the work of Sony, Philips, Hewlett-Packard on a similar but incompatible technology known as DVD-RW (rewritable). Typically, the presence of rival products is thought to confuse consumers and thus encourage manufacturers to delay the incorporation new technologies.