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To: VidiVici who wrote (38601)	1/26/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Hitachi, a C-Cube customer, shows off some new toys................. c-cube.com c-cube.com twice.com Hitachi Shows 1st DVD Deck - -January 25, 1999 By Greg Tarr Hitachi Home Electronics used this year's International CES to show its first DVD Video player, an HDTV-compatible LCD-based rear-projection set, and prototypes of a DVD-RAM video recorder/ player and DVD-RAM camcorder. The new advanced products are part of "the UltraVision legacy of excellence" that Hitachi will leverage to seize a prominent market share position in the field of emerging digital CE products, said executive VP Jon Poto. Poto singled out the DVD home recorder and DVD camcorder -- which executives said could be ready for market within 18-24 months -- as "the beginning of that snowball of digital products coming up." Both use the DVD-RAM system that has been championed by Hitachi, Panasonic and others. The camcorder uses a smaller 8cm disc, that will eventually fit in a multi-disc tray to be added to future home DVD Video players, Hitachi said. Joining the previously announced HDTV set and HDTV-ready monitors, Hitachi's sales executive VP Gary Bennett said the company's first DVD player (model DVP-250U) is now scheduled to ship in the second quarter at a $449 suggested retail price. The player offers component video output, built-in Dolby Digital decoding, zoom function, and "a Hitachi exclusive Disc Navigation feature" that captures thumbnail pictures of frames to bookmark segments on a DVD disc. Two other product innovations are Hitachi's first LCD-based rear-projection sets that are being designed to receive high-definition scan formats. The first product, which will be targeted to the "business presentation" market, is to offer a 52" 4:3 screen capable of displaying XGA and SVGA resolution levels. It is planned for the second quarter at a $5,999 suggested retail. The set will be joined by a consumer-targeted 56" 16:9 widescreen set, which will also carry a $5,999 suggested retail. Both sets will have Y-Pb-Pr component video inputs enabling up to 1080i signal sources from a digital set-top box. Another prototype product that was demonstrated at CES is a 42" plasma display panel capable of accepting HDTV scan formats. The set that was demonstrated offers more than 1 million pixels and a 160-degree viewing angle.

To: VidiVici who wrote (38601)	1/27/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: VidiVici	Respond to of 50808

Tut Systems IPO Buoyed By Home Networking Interest By Reshma Kapadia Wednesday January 27 1:05 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a sign of strong demand, the expected price range on the initial public offering from Tut Systems Inc. was raised Wednesday to $16-18 a share from an originally planned $14-16, according to lead underwriter Lehman Brothers. Interest in Tut Systems' IPO has been running high: the company has one foot in the broadband, high-speed data arena and the other in the home networking world. Tut, a developer of high-speed data connections using copper wire or digital subscriber lines, will offer 2.5 million shares in an initial public offering. The IPO is expected Thursday. ''They are in a sweet spot of telecom,'' said Gail Bronson of the IPO Monitor. ''Digital subscriber line technology (DSL) is really hot. Corporations are beginning to understand the value of DSL. ''If you were going to make a bet on one of the players (in this field), this would be it. They have all their ducks in a row in terms of partnerships and addressing market segments.'' DSL service provides near-instantaneous Internet access over standard copper phone lines. Although the telecom arena is fairly crowded, Tut approaches the market in a slightly different way by focusing on multi-dwelling units as opposed to individual houses, analysts said. The Pleasant Hill, Calif.-based company has also drawn interest because it is well-poised to benefit from forecast growth in the home networking market, analysts said. Home networking involves setting up links between PCs within a single home. The sector is small, but expected to undergo wildfire growth in the next few years. Yankee Group projects that there will be about 5 million new home networks by 2002. Institutional IPO investors will likely be interested in Tut's alliances with heavyweights such as Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on home-networking products. Both Compaq Computer Corp. . and Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:DIMD - news) have launched products with Tut's Home Run technology. Home Run is Tut's popular technology that links home PCs. ''From a home networking perspective, their Home Run technology is the first standard for home phone networking alliance, and there are big companies supporting that alliance so their technology is going to have the names of a lot of big companies behind them,'' said Karuna Uppal, an analyst at the Yankee Group. Copyright © 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. dailynews.yahoo.com