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To: DiViT who wrote (39188)	3/8/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Respond to of 50808

CUBE's future? IGT chief presides over stormy annual meeting By Gary Thompson <gary@lasvegassun.com> LAS VEGAS SUN International Game Technology Chairman Chuck Mathewson weathered a stormy annual meeting in Las Vegas Friday, fielding sharp questions from shareholders concerned over the slot maker's slumping stock price.

To: DiViT who wrote (39188)	3/9/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Steve Reinhardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Is this pose a serious threat to CUBE's PC-DVD business? cbs.marketwatch.com Sigma has road-show designs By Thom Calandra, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 11:36 AM ET Mar 4, 1999 StockWatch Chat SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Road-show alert. Road-show alert. Sigma Designs, a maker of PC-DVD upgrade kits, will head to New York, Boston and Philadelphia next week to educate fund managers about its MPEG chips, one shareholder says. The chips compress and decompress digital audio and video signals. The California company's conference call this week, led by CEO Thinh Tran, revealed that Sigma (SIGM) is winning business from C-Cube Microsystems' (CUBE) largest digital video disk customer, Creative Technologies (CREAF). "This effectively gives Sigma Designs a 100 percent market share in the PC-DVD upgrade kit market," says shareholder Glenn Holbert. The kits let folks view Hollywood movies and video on their computer screens and television sets. Holbert, who says Sigma Designs shares have languished amid virtually no Wall Street coverage of the company, has a new MPEG-2 chip that has "an excellent chance to be included in a number of set-top box configurations by various OEMs." The company's fourth-quarter sales rose 33 percent to $13 million from the year-ago quarter. The loss was $1.4 million, or 10 cents a share. The company posted about a $200,000 operating profit last quarter. Matsushita and IBM intend to use the tiny company's REALmagic DVD decoder for their DVD upgrade kits. Sigma shares at 5 3/4 on Nasdaq give the company a market worth of about $82 million, or two times last fiscal year's sales of $43 million. We last wrote about the company in November, when the market cap was $35 million. See the original column.

To: DiViT who wrote (39188)	3/9/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Steve Reinhardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Is Soft DVD decoder really that popular from ATI? biz.yahoo.com "MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999-- Panasonic Industrial Company announced today that its LF-D101 DVD-RAM drive is fully compatible with ATI Technologies Inc.'s (TSE:ATY - news; Nasdaq:ATYTF - news) All-in-Wonder(TM) Pro graphics card and ATI's Software DVD v1.2 decoder. The Windows® 98 upgrade card is an award-winning 2D and 3D accelerator that delivers unsurpassed graphics and video performance for powerful game play and multimedia presentation. The card also provides the host computer with NTSC output-to-TV and an advanced TV tuner that enables Web TV. The All-in-Wonder Pro and the versatile DVD-Rewritable drive provide a cost-effective platform for digital convergence -- users can capture videos and images from VCRs, camcorders and the Web that can be stored, edited and played back by the DVD-RAM drive with amazing quality..."