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To: Bob Strickland who wrote (37363)	11/20/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

News on the rewritable DVD front........... eet.com Group eyes 4.7-Gbyte density for rewritable DVD By Yoshiko Hara EE Times (11/20/98, 2:21 p.m. EDT) LAS VEGAS — The six proponents of DVD RW, a rewritable disk format that does not belong to the DVD family but is said to be compatible with DVD-ROM and DVD-Video disks, plan to extend the capacity of the drives to 4.7 Gbytes from the current 3.0 Gbytes. The announcement at Comdex this week was timed to take wind from the sails of the competing DVD-RAM format, for which a 4.7-Gbyte version is in the works. The high-capacity DVD-RAM drive could still beat its DVD RW counterpart to market. The 4.7-Gbyte DVD-RAM is detailed in version 1.9 of the format spec, which will be published before the end of this year. The 4.7-Gbyte DVD RW format is expected to be submitted to international standard organizations in 1999. The 4.7-Gbyte DVD RW system maintains key features of the first generation, such as in-groove recording, support for both constant linear velocity and constant angular velocity, and use of a bare disk. DVD RW group members also endorsed a plan to introduce 3.0-Gbyte systems by the spring. The group comprises Hewlett-Packard Co., MCC/Verbatim, Philips Electronics N.V., Ricoh Co. Ltd., Sony Corp. and Yamaha Corp. Among them, only Sony has stated clear plans for shipping products next year.