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To: BillyG who wrote (37281)	11/17/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

COMDEX PREVIEW: DVD presence a secondary issue 11/16/98 DVD Report (c) 1998 Phillips Business Information, Inc. DVD is expected to be a significant presence at this week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, NV, although not exactly a burning issue. DVD looks to be overshadowed in the greater scheme by such hot-button technology issues as e-commerce and the Internet, the Linux operating system, digital television, home networks, and mobile computing. A Wednesday-afternoon session titled "DVD: Is It Finally Poised to Take Off?" will offer the only DVD-centric discussion on the conference program, with Martin Levine of Digital Technology Report chairing a panel including Microsoft's Peter Biddle, Matsushita's Robert Duncan, and Philips' Rob van Eijk. Even so, DVD mavens prowling the floor will likely find a lot to look at. Drive manufacturers are sure to be spotlighting the latest and greatest in emerging recordable DVD formats, with Panasonic offering a reprise of the DVD-RAM showcase it first staged at New York's PC Expo. Toshiba will also show its new DVD-RAM drive. For digital video applications, C-Cube is demonstrating its new MPEG-2 encoding hardware (DVD Report, November 9), while Quadrant International will debut its own software-based MPEG-2 encoder (see story at left). InterVideo (Fremont, CA) will demo its WinDVD software in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at Comdex. WinDVD includes a playback system for DVD, Video CD versions 1.1 and 2.0, and MP3 audio. "What we've tried to do is take the lessons we have learned in the past several years ... and create a product that fills the holes left behind by the first-generation software DVD players," said vice president of sales and marketing Joe Monastiero. Title developer Media Galleries (Santa Cruz, CA) and replicator Media Group (Fremont, CA), the team responsible for publishing the recent "instant DVD" of President Clinton's grand jury testimony, will hand out copies of their DVD Discover Disc from a shared booth. And Psygnosis will spotlight its first DVD-ROM game, Lander, at the Dolby Laboratories booth. The game will include MPEG-2 full- motion-video sequences, with 5.1-channel Dolby Digital music and sound effects. The game is slated for spring release.