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To: Gottfried who wrote (6005)	3/31/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

All, Re: this whole digital VCR thing. If you don't like the idea of a digital VCR that you have to pay a monthly fee for, go otu and build one ;-).. I'm serious.. with alittle seed cash you could get the product to market very quicly.. I figure about $800 would be a decent ball park. If you are REALLY smart you store the movies as MPEGs on some kind of removable cartridge (i.e. Jazz or ORB or something).. Then you build a big monster model that is DVD AND DVCR. Considering my plan encludes MPEG playback encoding, the only additional cost would be the dvd asssembly, maybe another $250 at the consumer level. It's not hard to see where this is going to go. It's just a new idea and the companies that are in on this right now are trying to milk the consumer for everything they can right now. It's not different to the prices on PCs for years, the prices for high-performance disks, etc, etc, etc.. Hell I remember when a 2x CDROM drive was well over $400.. (and that DIDN'T include an interface card). Regards, Steve