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To: upanddown who wrote (38555)	1/25/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Video could be recorded to DVD-RAM today. Copy protection of content is the problem. It may take this year to resolve how it will be done.

To: upanddown who wrote (38555)	1/25/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Recordable DVD.................................... Waiting for Recordable DVD in 1999 DVD and CD-ROM drives will divide the market until recordability makes DVD the superior medium. by David Essex, special to PC World January 22, 1999, 4:00 a.m. PT Increasingly fast CD-ROM drives will continue to be a presence in new PCs for at least another year as a standards war hobbles the technology that is sure to replace them: recordable Digital Versatile Disc drives. That's the consensus of a half-dozen analysts and PC product managers asked to predict the near-term future of PC storage. "The only reason to prolong the life of CD-ROM is that DVD isn't fully accepted yet," says Mary Bourdon, principal analyst at Dataquest. more............................... pcworld.com