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To: Rande Is who wrote (5059)	4/6/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: MKTBUZZ	Respond to of 57584

Hi Rande, I like the DVD business. Here's a company, Image Entertainment, I bought into yesterday. Symbol is DISK - Nasdaq. And here's an article that got printed yesterday mentioning the growth in the business and DISK. DVD racks up gains in units, discs Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES -- The fledgling DVD format has received another boost to its status as an industry trade group reported first-quarter shipments of 390,000 players and sales of 10 million discs. The report by the DVD Video Group on Monday shows that the 2-year-old format has shed its flash-in-the-pan status, based on the strength of first-quarter activity. During that 90-day period, 24 percent of the current ''installed base'' of 1.6 million players was shipped along with 33 percent of the 30 million discs shipped. ''These impressive shipment numbers for first quarter 1999 indicate the overwhelming consumer demand,'' said Emiel N. Petrone, chairman of the trade group and an executive with Philips Electronics. The trade group also estimated that there are 2,500 titles available in the format and projected that that figure will hit 4,000 by the end of the year. Jay Kim, an analyst with Paul Kagan Associates, said the format's gains are not a surprise due to the rapid decline in player prices -- now under $300 for bare-bones machines -- and the increased supply of titles. ''We think there will be about 4million players sold this year,'' he added. ''It's part of the growing trend toward digital entertainment.'' DVDs debuted in March 1997 with a few dozen titles and and the first players selling for at least $700. The discs are the same size as compact discs and offer digital clarity, six-channel sound, instant rewind and massive amounts of information such as movie trailers, screenplays, interviews and foreign-language soundtracks. Stock of Los Angeles-based Image Entertainment, a wholesaler converting its core business from laserdisc to DVD, rose 25 cents to $6.9375 a share Monday following a gain of 81.25 cents in the previous session. Despite the growth of the DVD business, the issue has been hammered in recent weeks and hit a 1999 low of $5.875 on March 31 before rebounding during the past two sessions. In January, Image had traded above $12 following reports of strong sales gains during the holiday season. Analyst Steven Hart of Commonwealth Associates, who has a $20 price target for the stock over the next 12 months, said the absence of new developments since then has caused the stock to drift downward. ''It's definitely not performed the way I thought it would,'' Hart said Monday. ''Nothing has changed with the company and I still expect the stock to reach the target. There was a lot of DVD growth in the first quarter of this year and the format is taking off just as expected.''

To: Rande Is who wrote (5059)	4/6/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

EAST - Here's another position play for the thread: EAST going to release their website 4/12 at annual meeting. Rumors of online trading announcement also. Eastbrokers Sets April 12th as Date For Annual Shareholder Meeting; Initial Launch Date of EBonlineinc.com Expected to Debut at Meeting ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Eastbrokers International Incorporated (Nasdaq: EAST; Berlin and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges: ETB) announced today that it has set April 12th, 1999, as its date for its 1998, Annual Shareholder Meeting. The Company set the record date as March 1, 1999. The Company also announced that it intends to debut the launch of the first phase of its EBonlineinc.com subsidiary at the Annual Meeting in April. As an initial step, the Company secured the following URL address Web sites: Bizfinance.net, Bizmergers.com, Bizfunding.com, Bizservicesnet.com, Bizresourcenetwork.com, Fundingnetwork.com, Fundingandmergers.com. The Company anticipates that each of these URL addresses will be focused on industry specific areas, each with its own resources to help growth oriented companies. The Company intends to develop EBonlineinc.com in conjunction with Cyber Realm, an international Internet access and content provider. The Company cautioned that its plan to jointly develop EBonlineinc.com with Cyber Realm is subject to the signing of a definitive agreement between the Company and Cyber Realm. Furthermore, EBonlineinc.com is only in its development phase and there can be no assurance that this subsidiary or the Company's relationship with Cyber Realm will be successfully developed. The Company also stated that it may have to obtain various regulatory approvals in the development of EBonlineinc.com and that obtaining these approvals, among other factors, could negatively impact the proposed timing and successful development of EBonlineinc.com. ----------------- P.S. Great call Rande Is on TUNE and TUNEP!