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DVD Market: Players, Recorders, Media, and Future

FEBRUARY 10, 2003 • TIBURON, CA—The DVD market is huge, and getting larger; very rapidly. No longer limited to home entertainment playback boxes, it is being combined with increasing numbers of consumer electronics products; computers, ...

PC Graphics Shipments Increase 13% in Fourth Quarter 2002; All Market

Jon Peddie Research announces Q4'02 results in PC graphics report

PC Graphics Shipments Increase 11% in Q3 2002; Growth Limited to Chipsets with Integrated Graphics

Jon Peddie’s Market Watch reports chipset suppliers gain Jon Peddie’s Market Watch reports chipset suppliers gain share in Q3’02 while discrete suppliers experience shipment declines

The PC graphics industry is resilient: chip shipments decline but new product introductions increase

Jon Peddie Research publishes Q2'02 Market Watch: graphic chip report for the second calendar quarter of 2002

On the standards front: Studios announce plans to release D-VHS videotapes

The Studios have come out in favor of D-VHS for secure recording. So far, Artisan Entertainment, Dreamworks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios announced that they will use JDV’s D-Theater version of D-VHS. The ...

Apple having trouble shipping G4 flatpanel iMac. Steve Jobs, on the other hand says all is swell

In a kind of business as usual announcement Apple has told customers that the new iMacs will be delayed as a result of LCD shortages. Supplies of 15-inch, 17-inch monitors are in especially short supply ...

Zoran shells out $5 million for stake in Hong Kong box builder with Chinese connections

Zoran has taken a stake in DVN a Hong Kong firm that builds set-top boxes for the China Cable TV market. ZVN says they’re happy with the deal because a relationship with Zoran will enable ...

ESS adds a little high-end glitz with strategic relationship including Linn Products and Sony to add

ESS is hoping to broaden its market into higher priced markets with the addition of SACD support for its DVD products and by offering a development platform built by consumer electronics manufacturer Linn. The Linn ...

Nvidia answers ATI with Select Builder program for US channel partners

Nvidia has indeed lost a few fractious partner to ATI’s new open platform strategy. And, we have been assured by ATI’s representatives that there are plenty more deals going on. In addition, ATI announced at ...

Intel ships 2.4 GHz Pentium 4

We know you where worrying about this, but relax, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4s are shipping. The chips codenamed Northwood are Intel’s first chips to be built using the .13-process and 200mm wafers but next ...

Apple updates DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Mac OS X

Apple has introduced the latest version of its DVD Studio Pro, the 1.5 version has been optimized for Max OS X. The OS X advantage gives the program the ability to do MPEG encoding and ...

AMD gets new endorsements for Opteron

AMD is building an environment for its new Opteron—their first chip to be introduced using the Hammer technology. Obviously, a hunky chip like this needs graphics, and AMD announced that 3DLabs, ATI, Matrox and SiS ...