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To: DiViT who wrote (36197)	9/24/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

$4,999 is a great price for an MPEG-2 encoder package, but it is still too high for home applications. Are there any estimates as to what a CUBE 2Real based encoder board might cost? Maybe we'll have to wait for Comdex........

To: DiViT who wrote (36197)	9/24/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Slap another licensing fee on your digital box............. Five firms attack digital pirates By Reuters Special to CNET News.com September 24, 1998, 9:20 a.m. PT Five leading electronics makers said today they have started licensing a method they've developed to protect copyrighted content transferred over digital interfaces from illegal copying. The five firms are Hitachi, Intel, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony, and Toshiba. The Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, an independent licensing authority formed by the five firms, started licensing the Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) method to interested businesses yesterday, the group said in a statement. A Matsushita spokesman said the increasing popularity of digital electronics products gave rise to the need to protect digital contents transferred between electronic devices such as personal computers, DVD players and set-top boxes. In February 1996, the five companies presented the DTCP method to the Copy Protection Technical Working Group, an ad-hoc, cross-industry body organized to evaluate content protection technologies, the statement said. They formed the authority in June 1998 to simplify licensing procedures and promote swift acceptance of the DTCP method by content providers, electronics makers and broadcast service providers, the statement said.

To: DiViT who wrote (36197)	9/24/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

Windows98 has NetShow drivers for ZiVA?????????????????????????? x14.dejanews.com Re: DVD and WINDOWS 98 more headers << Previous message >> N e x t message Author: Robert Sawdey author profile email reply view thread post new · post reply subscribe Email: rsawdey@ibm.net Date: 1998/09/17 Forums: alt.video.dvd view for bookmarking · text only -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DENY DENY DENY! There are several aspects to supporting DVD, support for the UDF filesystem, support for DVD drives, and support for MPEG2 decoders in hardware or software. Part of the reason the depth of support is misunderstood, the DVD player application (similar to the CD player) only becomes visible after Win98 recognizes (via PnP) one of the supported decoders. This is complicated by the fact that only 3 decoders are natively supported, the Toshiba single chip Timpani 1, the LuxSonor LS220, and the Hardware Cinemaster 98 (based on the single chip decoder from C-Cube). Any drivers must not only impliment the full NetShow interface, but it must be done as a WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver, the unified driver model for Win98 and NT5.0. Only after all these conditions are met does the player become visible on the 'Add / Remove Windows Components' page. This is to prevent people with incompatible hardware from trying to use the player. I think most existing decoder boards will work, ONCE THE WDM DRIVER IS WRITTEN FOR THEM! Robert Sawdey >>>I've heard some rumours here that, despite promises to the contrary, >>Windows 98 >>>is not DVD compatable. It's supposed to be, it just doesn't work and >>Microsoft >>>are laying blame on the PCs of the world. Can someone confirm/deny this >>>please? >>> >>>John >> >>Contrary to everything everyone else here is saying, Microsoft DIDN'T >>include DVD support in Win 98. > >No... Win98 DOES support DVD... it just doesn't support DVD-Video. >(Which ... as far as I can tell... it never claimed to) >