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Technology Stocks : Ampex Corporation (AEXCA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gus who wrote (5450)	2/12/1999 2:23:00 AM
From: Hal Campbell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Handy link. matisse.net Researching my own question on the improvement in bandwidth that would be required to transmit full motion, full screen video on the net .... " How much stuff you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. A fast modem can move about 15,000 bits in one second. Full-motion full-screen video would require roughly 10,000,000 bits-per-second, depending on compression." An improvement by a factor of around 667 times is needed from here.WOW! A long long way off ...... or is it?

To: Gus who wrote (5450)	2/12/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: SC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Gus, thank you for your response. I have never regarded keepering media as a reason to own Ampex (If it happens it would be iceing on the cake.). My only concern is that the increased disk capacities could make tape storage obsolete. Obviously the future for this company depends on eventual adoption of HDTV and video on demand, but the revenue stream from DST is necessary to keep us in the black until that happens. I suppose Ampex could develop a RAID disk array that is superior to EMC, Storagetek,etc. But this is an uncertainty, and the cause of my concern. Steve