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To: BillyG who wrote (35778)	9/9/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

DVD PLAYER SALES SKYROCKET DVD player sales were phenomenal for the week ending August 28,1998. There were 54,442 players sold, a 184 percent increase over 1997's corresponding week. This figure also represents an increase of 38,571 from August 21,1998 numbers. This was the highest single week DVD player sales ever. Month to date sales of DVD players increased as well. August 1998 sales rose 139 percent over August 1997 figures, to 81,170. This brings year to date DVD player sales to 442,216 - a 148 percent increase over1997's 178,472. Mike Adachi, Project Manager of DVD for Panasonic, foresees continued industry growth in DVD player sales, with year-end figures of approximately 800,000 to 900,000 units.

To: BillyG who wrote (35778)	9/9/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Matsushita's 8.5Gig DVD-RAM.................... pcworld.com Matsushita Technology To Allow 8.5GB DVD-RAM Panasonic's parent aims to offer the highest capacity rewritable DVD drive yet. by Rob Guth, IDG News Service September 9, 1998, 4:05 a.m. PT TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial plans to announce this week that it has developed a high-capacity optical disk technology, which might be used in future rewritable DVDs (digital video disks). A 12-cm version of the disk can hold 8.5GB of data, the company said. The same-sized disk can store six hours of video compressed with MPEG-2 (Motion Pictures Expert Group 2) technology and achieve an average data transfer rate of 3MB per second. Matsushita has not decided when it will market the technology, said a company spokesperson. Japanese vendors including Matsushita, Sony, and Toshiba have been pushing DVD products as the successors to today's home video recorders and CD-ROM drives. Existing DVD-RAM systems in the market have capacities of 2.6GB and 5.2GB. The base technologies that will be used for larger capacity systems have yet to be decided. Though the Matsushita technology can easily be made compatible with existing DVD systems, it must first be accepted by a standards group called the DVD Forum, according to observers.