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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gottfried who wrote (4329)	11/18/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

These so called analyst....first they say they don't see much promise in this area and then they say "watch out sony is coming"...they will be the last to get on board...probably when we are around 20!!

To: Gottfried who wrote (4329)	11/18/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Ben Antanaitis	Respond to of 10072

GM, Interesting. Rosencrans must have changed his mind, or isn't a big enough deal to be included in the Zacks survey. Here is the 11/14/98 Zacks analyst ratings report: ******************************************************** R I Z R R I -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- STRONG MODERATE HOLD MODERATE STRONG BUY BUY SELL SELL N = NATIONAL RETAIL BROKER; I = INSTITUTIONAL BROKER R = REGIONAL BROKERAGE FIRM; Z = ZACKS INDICATOR RANKING (EPS FORECAST REVISION MODEL) ( + UPGRADE SINCE LAST WEEK; - DOWNGRADE ) IOMEGA CORP 11/14/98 ******************************************************** Ben A.

To: Gottfried who wrote (4329)	11/18/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Respond to of 10072

Gottfried/all....DVD stuff from the IOM Motley Fool board: Subject: MacIntouch @ Comdex on Optical Storage <<After years of debate in and out of standards bodies, the world of optical storage remains wracked by severe and potentially debilitating conflicts about next-generation technologies. Yesterday a group of top-tier vendors, including HP, Sony, Philips, Ricoh, Verbatim, and Yamaha, announced agreement on a new specification for future rewriteable DVD with a capacity of 4.7 Gb per side. The spec will be submitted to standards organizations next year, they said. In the meantime, they're pushing ahead with plans to deliver DVD+RW drives and media with a capacity of 3 Gb per side in the spring. The companies supporting the new spec have organized under the name DVD+RW Compatibility Alliance (DCA for short). But they mean compatibility with each other; barring a major change of direction by one camp or the other, there's no possibility of compatibility with DVD-RAM, a different rewriteable format that was endorsed by the DVD Forum and is now being promoted by other companies, particularly Panasonic and Hitachi. A big part of the promise of both DVD-RAM and +RW is that they'll make it easy and affordable to create discs readable in DVD-ROM drives, which are expected to become a desktop standard, like CD-ROM today. Unfortunately, current DVD-ROM drives, even the so-called second and third-generation models, won't be able to read DVD-RAM or +RW discs. The +RW camp claims that their solution will require relatively minor engineering changes in future DVD-ROM drives to achieve compatabilty, whereas accommodating DVD-RAM discs would require much more extensive work. (DVD+RW is apparently descended mainly from CD-RW technology, whereas DVD-RAM is based on the less common PD, or Phase-change Dual, format.) On the other hand, DVD-RAM proponents claim that their compatability problems with the new ROM drives are on the verge of disappearing as so-called "5x" drives appear in the next few months. In short, it's a mess, with no resolution in sight.. Whatever the technical merits, these conflicts disturb users and discourage them from committing to any of the choices; if that becomes permanent, none of the alternatives will ever be a real standard. That would be a real shame, because the idea behind both of the warring technologies - providing a low-cost, high-capacity, and high-reliability removable media - is pretty alluring. >> Regards, xxxxxxx still a long-term raging bull... who has never sold a share... ****************************************************************** This is exactly the reason I won't be ordering a DVD anything** in my new computer next fall unless some of the smoke clears and there is quite a bit of standardization in place. Unlike some who post here, I don't believe in buying doorstops! Dave