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To: Steve Reinhardt who wrote (2162)	12/2/1998 12:50:00 AM
From: GGekko	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3493

steve Where do you get round trip air fare to hawaii for $400? Will you book me a flight? did any body see the bounce off of the moving average today GG

To: Steve Reinhardt who wrote (2162)	12/2/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 3493

VNet's ESS box..................................... scmp.com. YVONNE CHAN Super VCD, the mainland's official video disc standard, is coming to the SAR by way of set-top box maker VNet Information. VNet plans to launch a combination set-top box and Super VCD player early next year that will enable users to browse the Internet and send e-mail on TV screens without a computer, and play video discs in the VCD and Super VCD standard. Its VWeb machine, which is the size of a VCR, hooks up to a standard telephone line and a TV monitor. VWeb has a built-in 56-kilobit-per-second V.90 modem and uses its own Internet browser designed by a Japanese company. Words are input with a cordless computer keyboard or can be jotted on a handwriting-recognition tablet in either English or Chinese characters. Franco Kong, of VNet distributor MPEG Systems, believes other Super VCD players will come on to the SAR market next year. Super VCD, which has 350 pixels per horizontal resolution line, is an improvement over 250-pixel VCD. "The picture quality will be better than VCD," Mr Kong said. He predicted that Super VCD discs - the non-pirated variety - would sell in Hong Kong for between $40 and $50. Even if the standard fails to take off in Hong Kong, VWeb could play the popular VCD standard, but not digital video discs. VWeb would sell for $2,000 to $3,000, slightly more than a stand-alone, compact VCD player and less than half the price of a PC. VNet planned to bundle the player in a package with Net access from its own VNet Internet service, Mr Kong said. VWeb was displayed at last week's Hong Kong Software Exhibition '98. Multinationals NEC, IBM, and QAD had the biggest displays at the exhibition, but crowds last Wednesday gravitated towards a small booth by Wing Lee International Trading. It demonstrated Idealist Music 5.0 software that enables users to compose and edit music on a PC using the computer keyboard as a musical keyboard. What seemed to most impress visitors was the product's ability to turn a PC into a karaoke machine, with the addition of a microphone and speakers. Although it lacks on-screen video backgrounds provided by karaoke VCDs, Idealist plays accompanying music, displays sing-along lyrics in Chinese characters and allows budding singers to input musical accompaniments via the keyboard. Wing Lee is the SAR distributor of the $190 software made by Taiwanese company Idealist Music.