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To: DiViT who wrote (41764)	6/5/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

A follow to Hitachi/Toshiba DVD-ROM increases............... zdnet.co.uk Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:20:27 GMT Reuters apanese electronics manufacturers Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. said on Friday they would increase production of DVD-ROM drives. Hitachi will boost production of DVD-ROM (digital video disc read-only memory) drives to 6.5 million units per year in the business year to March 2000 in Japan and Malaysia, up from three million in 1998/99, it said. The production increase is due to rising demand in the United States. Toshiba will increase DVD-ROM drive output to six million units per year in 1999/00 in Japan and the Philippines, compared with 2.5 million in 1998/99. The company said the increase in output was due to higher demand in Japan and the United States.