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Technology Stocks : PINNACLE MICRO (PNCL) - A QUALITY PICK FOR '98 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lawrence M. Koga who wrote (1676)	3/18/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: jessie mae	Respond to of 1709

Thanks for the reply, Lawrence. Well...In my opinion, DVD-RAM is NOT going to be a winner. I much prefer the DVD+RW from SONY/Philips/HP. Unfortunately, it is not yet available. The main advantage of the DVD+RW besides being 3.0 GB/side instead of 2.6, is the ease of support from the DVD-ROM drive side. The +RW format is designed to be as identicle to the DVD-ROM format as possible as opposed to the RAM format which is more costly to adapt readers to. The winner of this format war will only be clear when the DVD-ROM manufacturing community adopts support of one or the other. In the meantime, neither RAM or +RW(when its available) will make a big hit due to a lack of readback capability in installed ROM drives. In addition, as both RAM and +RW sides have announced, 4.7 GB drives are on the way which is what the public is waiting for. I do commend PNCL for getting the RAM drive to the market though. At least they are trying to be progressive. So remember, the model that needs to be adhered to here is the CD-ROM to CD-R to CD-RW migration. CD-R was and continues to be wildly successful do the the fact that written CD-R disks may be read back in the millions of installed CD-ROM drives. When the installed base of DVD-ROM drives exist that can read a written DVD-RAM or +RW disk, the rewritable DVD market will explode. This equates to data distribution, not just a one user/one drive situation. Something like 80% of all CD-R media is written at duplicators and then distributed. One point that may answer the question as to why PM is "not pursuing the consumer market" with the DVD-RAM drive is the limited availablity of the drive. It is apparent that production of these drives is quite difficult and output is rather low. I did just find them available from PCMALL under the HiVal brand ($799.00) No PMs yet. Price is too high for general consumers. Just my two cents worth.