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To: PaulW who wrote (38007)1/5/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: DiViT  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50808
 
Stock Watch

01/04/99 Multimedia Week
(c) 1999 Phillips Business Information, Inc.

Table below.

Company Close 1 Week YTD
12/30 % Ch % Ch

3Dfx: 11.19 dn 8.2% dn 50.3%
3Dlabs: 3.69 dn 10.5% dn 84.1%
8x8: 5.69 dn 12.5% dn 48%
Adaptec: 17.63 up 2.6% dn 52.5%
Adobe: 46 dn 1.7% up 11.5%
AMD: 29.13 up 4% up 64.1%
America Online: 147.44 up 7.9% up 551.7%
Apple Computer: 40.06 up 2.1% up 205.2%
ATI: 11.25 up 3.4% up 13.4%
Avid: 22.56 up 1.4% dn 15.7%
C-Cube: 25.5 dn 1% up 56.3%
Cirrus Logic: 9.88 dn 7% dn 7%
Compaq: 42.56 dn 1.3% up 50.7%
Creative: 13.88 up UNCH dn 36.9%
Dell Computer: 73.25 dn 1.8% up 248.8%
Diamond: 6 dn 0.5% dn 32.4%
Discreet Logic: 17.88 dn 2% dn 18.5%
ESS: 5.06 dn 4.8% dn 33.4%
Gateway: 51.5 dn 4% up 57.3%
Hewlett-Packard: 69.94 up 3% up 12.1%
IBM: 186.75 dn 0.6% up 78.5%
Intel: 119.19 dn 4.6% up 69.7%
Intergraph: 5.34 dn 4% dn 46.6%
Iomega: 7.44 dn 7.7% dn 40.2%
LSI Logic: 16.25 dn 3.3% dn 17.2%
Lucent: 108.63 up 1.1% up 172%
Macromedia: 34.31 up 3.8% up 312.7%
Matsushita: 170.75 up 0.4% up 12.3%
Media 100: 5.84 dn 2.7% up 16.8%
MetaCreations: 5.13 dn 5.7% dn 53.9%
Micron Electronics: 17.13 dn 6.1% up 87.7%
Microsoft: 139 dn 1.9% up 115.1%
Motorola: 61 up 1.8% up 6.7%
Nat'l Semiconductor: 13.31 dn 5.4% dn 48.7%
Nimbus: 11.44 UNCH up 6.4%
Oak Technology.: 3.5 up 3.7% dn 46.2%
Oracle: 43.75 up 6.2% up 96.1%
Philips: 66.94 dn 0.8% up 10.6%
Pinnacle: 34.31 up 7.2% up 40.8%
RealNetworks: 34.5 dn 14.8% up 148.6%
S3: 6.81 dn 3.1% up 36.2%
SGI: 12.81 up 3% up 4%
Sony: 71.63 dn 1.1% dn 21.1%
Sonic Solutions: 3.63 dn 3.2% dn 19.3%
SRS Labs: 3.03 up 2.1% dn 59.3%
STB Systems: 6.75 dn 1.8% dn 54%
Sun: 83.06 dn 0.3% up 108.3%
Trident: 4.13 up 1.6% dn 54.4%
Texas Instruments: 87.5 up 1.9% up 94.4%
VLSI Tech.: 11 dn 1.1% dn 53.4%
WavePhore: 8.25 dn 11.4% dn 12%
Zoran: 16.88 up 8.9% up 39.9%

Winners

1. Zoran: 16.88 up 8.9%
2. America Online: 147.44 up 7.9%
3. Pinnacle: 34.31 up 7.2%
4. Oracle: 43.75 up 6.2%
5. AMD: 29.13 up 4%

Losers

1. RealNetworks: 34.5 dn 14.8%
2. 8x8: 5.69 dn 12.5%
3. WavePhore: 8.25 dn 11.4%
4. 3Dlabs: 3.69 dn 10.5%
5. 3Dfx: 11.19 dn 8.2%



To: PaulW who wrote (38007)1/5/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: DiViT  Respond to of 50808
 
Avid going for Zoran JPEG in not really news. Avid has been using Zoran JPEG on MAC systems for years.

The bigger news for Zoran IMO, is their new all format audio decoder.



To: PaulW who wrote (38007)1/6/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: DiViT  Respond to of 50808
 
This one sounds familiar...

AVerMedia Announces the Launching of New USB Port Video Capturing Device For Macintosh, AVerMedia MVExplorer, in MacWorld Expo '99 Show

01/05/99 PR Newswire
(Copyright (c) 1999, PR Newswire)

FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., the technology leader in the Scan Converter Market, today announced the launching of the NEW multimedia video capture device, AVerMedia MVExplorer. AVerMedia will demonstrate this first external USB Port device for Macintosh in the MacWorld Expo '99 at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center starting from January 5-8, 1999. AVerMedia's booth is located in the Moscone North Hall at # 135. The product will be available by the end of 1st Quarter of 1999.

AVerMedia MVExplorer is a plug-n-play, external USB Box that enables connection of any composite video source from a standard camera, VCR, television set or camcorder to transfer into your Macintosh (USB Port required). It captures real time video up to 30 frames per second. The captured file can be output into MJPEG compressed video or 4:2:2 uncompressed YUV video. The high quality video file can then be used for an array of purposes like storage on your hard disk, video editing, video mail, video conferencing and so much more.

AVerMedia MVExplorer works with iMac or any Macintosh with a USB Port. The product comes with a JPEG software decoder for real-time display while capturing and for playback from a file. It supports NTSC or PAL. A microphone is required to capture audio.

AVerMedia further announced an affordable video editing solution with the professional capture quality, AVerMedia MV-300, for customers' different needs. The AVerMedia MV-300 is a PCI Motion JPEG board which allows users to capture and compress full-screen, full-motion and real-time video. It supports S-video and CVBS outputs. The AVerMedia MV-300 is bundled with powerful software which allows users a variety of video applications, such as Nonlinear Video Editing, Video Image Capture, Video Recording, Editing and Video Tape Post-processing etc.

For more information on AVerMedia's products or MacWorld Expo Show, please contact Kathy Shih at the AVerMedia, Inc. at 510-770-9899 or visit our web site at www.aver.com.

/CONTACT: Kathy Shih of AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., 800-863-2332, ext. 103, or 510-770-9901, or kathy@aver.com/ 05:00 EST

Contact: /CONTACT: Kathy Shih of AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., 800-863-2332, ext. 103, or 510-770-9901, or kathy@aver.com/ 05:00 EST