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To: Mel Boreham who wrote (5655)	1/9/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Alan Rosen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Mel, Even if Jazz is affected I think the action for IOM will be Zip and Clik! Jazz may become the next Ditto-like product for the company, although the graphic file users I know (just a few) all swear by Jazz, it is their industry standard. I stay long in the stock because I am intrigued by the potential of Clik!, it is here now, so we can finally see if it can do in across the market what many of us anticipate. On another note, are you an Apple user? I want to add a second PC for home and business use...I have always had Intel based machines but am interested in going a little deeper into graphics and desktop publishing (my business is correspondence, schedule and "numbers" based. Your thoughts (or others) would be appreciated regarding if this is a desirable or unnecessary acquisition. archcc

To: Mel Boreham who wrote (5655)	1/9/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Jeff Sheeran	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Mel, Fire Wire is absolutely awesome.It should replace SCSI eventually because of the bandwidth it offers. I have a Digital video camera that I connect to my PC with a radius Fire Wire Card, I do still frame capture and some video, the pc is slow for video capture though, I need a scsi drive or a raid to really do it effectively. The quality is absolutely great though. There is no loss of image quality and there are 30 frames per second, kinda like flipping through comic books where there is an image on each page, each image is very sharp as a stand alone but in sequence it becomes video. DV (digital video) is really a dark horse here, it consumes huge amounts of storage, roughly 1 gig for 6 minutes of video uncompressed!!!!! Iomega must meet this demand because I believe that DV will eclipse digital cameras. I can get the perfect picture (just go through the video frame by frame) everytime and the still frames are 480x720 resolution. Not 8x10 print quality but certainly a lot better than a Sony floppy Mavica camera and great for the web. can do capture of every xth frame for making time lapsed or GIF loops too. How many times have you wished you could take pictures off of a video camera? DV offers that, it will revolutionize video similarly to how the digital revolution transformed Music. DV started above $2000 and is dropping down to around $700 now. Perfect for weddings and other "Kodak moments". It really is amazing technology. Sorry about the rambling here, I just see a convergence of technologies that will revolutionize the consumer market, this is not even taking digital tv into the equation. Regards, Jeff sheeran