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To: BillyG who wrote (38919)	2/12/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

More BlackBird................................ asiansources.com Set-top boxes Posted: Feb. 8, 1998 Streamaster for multimedia technology. Streamaster architecture to revolutionize multimedia technology Motorola has recently unveiled the Streamaster architecture as the official brand name for its open, extensible multimedia architecture aimed at revolutionizing video entertainment and video communications. Defined by a Motorola-owned and developed operating environment, it supports interactive 3D graphics, Java, MPEG digital video, high-fidelity audio, Internet access, e-commerce and broadband networking in a single integrated unit. Motorola will be developing a family of standard intelligent broadband access and intelligent Internet access products based on Streamaster architecture. The company had previously announced the Blackbird home media platform, the first Streamaster-compliant technology product. The Streamaster architecture is based on a foundation of the Microware OS/9000 operating system running David 2.2 and Maui, an HTML engine based on Spyglass' Device Mosaic 3.0, pJAVA, Nuon Media Libraries for advanced graphics and media handling, and Motorola-developed network extensions.

To: BillyG who wrote (38919)	2/12/1999 4:27:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Who's buying all these Panasonic DVD players? 40% market share?????????????????????????? nni.nikkei.co.jp Saturday, February 13, 1999 M'shita Electric To Offer Lightest Portable DVD Player OSAKA (Nikkei)--Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752) said Friday that it will release the world's smallest and lightest portable DVD player on March 20. The DVD-L50, which succeeds the company's popular DVD-L10, will feature a 280,000-pixel active-matrix screen and will weigh 940 grams with a battery and 640 grams without. It will be priced at 125,000 yen. The DVD-L10 -- the world's first portable DVD player with a built-in liquid crystal display -- has been popular in both Japan and the U.S. Matsushita has sold a total of at least 80,000 units since its February 1998 debut. Matsushita, which holds some 40% of the global DVD-player market, now makes 10,000 portable units a month and plans to increase its output capacity to 20,000 a month in April. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Saturday morning edition)