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Futures News How To Spend It Business Travel Special Reports Technical Trading Thom Calandra's StockWatch NAB: Sonic Solutions, Sigma Designs U.K. update: Futuremedia Plc shares soar By Thom Calandra, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 11:18 AM ET Apr 19, 1999 StockWatch Chat LONDON (CBS.MW) -- In the world of fast-colliding Internet, radio and television technologies, investors are forever searching for the new-product announcement that will ignite their favorite stocks. Now, I may be half-a-world away from the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. Still, our loyal CBS.MarketWatch.com stock hounds -- transmitting to me in London -- are on the prowl. Their top picks: DVD tools maker Sonic Solutions (snic: news, msgs) and chip-set maker Sigma Designs (sigm: news, msgs). Talk about your U.K. favorites on our StockWatch message board. In the case of Sonic Solutions, the Marin County, Calif., company says anyone can now author a digital video disc for $499. Sonic Solutions' stock has languished because of the rapidly falling prices of its DVD Creator workstations for the creation of audio and video files. Sonic, whose notice Monday was well followed by Internet bulletin board Web sites, said those using a Windows-based personal computer can use Sonic DVDit! to create interactive content and play it back on consumer machines. The company says there are 10 million DVD players and DVD-equipped PCs in use. The new authoring tool will be available at www.dvdit.com starting in July 1999. Today on CBS MarketWatch Stocks claw their way back Trade gap comes to whopping $19.4 billion Microsoft earnings seen rising by 28% SBC, Ameritech, BellSouth profits rise StockWatch: Search value in Germany, Britain More top stories... CBS MarketWatch Columns Updated: 4/20/99 11:46:38 AM ET Sonic at the Las Vegas gathering also unveiled a $399 plug-in for Adobe Premiere (adbe: news, msgs). The DVDit! plug-in converts video and audio into DVD-video volumes that can be played back on DVD-Video set-top players and DVD-equipped personal computers, the company said. Sonic shares early Monday were up 3/8 at 6. Sigma Designs is the other small California company that could turn some heads at NAB. Sigma has a REALmagic NetStream playback card that it's demonstrating in digital video streaming media applications. John Hargraves, a Sigma supporter, was the first to point out that the company's MPEG decoder cards, which are used in personal computers for streaming video, will see use at the NAB convention from a handful of companies, including Oracle (orcl: news, msgs) and Silicon Graphics (sgi: news, msgs). Sigma's list of partner companies can be found at sigmadesigns.com. "There's also a suspicion among Sigma Designs supporters like me that Sigma is in the new all-in-one chip announced by IBM (ibm: news, msgs) that'll be introduced at NAB," Hargraves said. Another Sigma investor, Glenn Holbert, said Oracle Chairman Lawrence Ellison would demonstrate a Sigma product this week in Las Vegas. Holbert also said the use of set-top boxes --which allow personal computers and television sets to share functions -- "will be the buzzwords over the coming months, and Sigma has positioned itself well in the center of this convergence." Sigma shares early Monday rose 3/8 to 7 1/2. FMDAY NASD Last Chg. 0 29/32 -0 1/32 % Chg. Vol. -3.33% 447,600 Day Lo. Day Hi. 0 13/16 1 3/32 Open Prev. 1 0 15/16 As of Apr 20/99 1:10 pm ET Last Trade Apr 20/99 12:50 pm ET 15 MIN. DELAY Holy smokes: The British are born bargain hunters. They may have found one Monday. We wrote about Futuremedia Plc this weekend, saying the British Web developer of knowledge distribution programs does business with several large European companies, including Ericsson (ericy: news, msgs) and British Telecommunications (bty: news, msgs). Futuremedia (fmday: news, msgs) shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the United States rose as much as 60 percent early Monday. The U.K. company's market capitalization is tiny -- less than $20 million U.S. Futuremedia is based in Arundel, in Sussex, England. See the original column. AOL gig: Thom Calandra talks markets, stocks and the economy on America Online's Live Market Chat, each Friday at 2:30 p.m. EST. Sage Online runs the discussion. Pinch-hitting this week is MarketWatch.com Internet writer Bambi Francisco. Thom Calandra is CBS MarketWatch's editor-in-chief. For more breaking news, visit our Front Page. Also, search our news archives: Ticker Keyword (For more options use our Advanced Search) CBSMW MarketPlace • Want the best mortgage rate around? Check out our loan center New! • Best Flower and Online Gift Shop: JustFlowers.com • Discover all kinds of fun, innovative gifts @ sharperimage.com • MarketWatch MarketPlace: Click to shop for great deals. 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