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...customers have grown from zero to 5.8 million. And as cable and broadcasters start to roll out high-resolution programming in the next few years, more viewers will find a reason to be immersed in a movie-theater environment. "The future of home theater is in digital TV," says Dataquest analyst Jonathan Cassell. At the same time, DVD, the next-generation successor to videotapes and CDs that is hitting the market, promises superior audiovisual quality. The final touch: futuristic flat-panel TVs that hang as elegantly on a wall as a Renoir...
...million), scrappy partner with the know-how to direct the consumer push. Though Diba's enabling software for smart phones and televisions has received mixed reviews, it's building Internet-browsing TVs for Samsung in Korea. The Sun deal is "a way of playing catch-up," says Dataquest principal analyst Allen Weiner. "Sun is mostly buying Diba's relationship with electronics companies." And with Bill Gates sitting on $9 billion in reserves, Sun is going to need all the help...
...complete nonsense," says Syncronys president Rainer Poertner of c't's charge. "The compression algorithms are at the heart of our technology." Does SoftRAM 95 actually compress data held in memory chips? "Absolutely!" he insists. Poertner points out that a recent customer survey conducted by Dataquest, a market- research firm, showed that most SoftRAM 95 owners are quite satisfied...
...video-game players have another option: they can wait a few years before trading up. "Don't forget, kids could easily go a year doing other activities,'' says Dataquest's Lavin. "They still have the right to go out and play basketball." That scenario is a lot scarier to the industry than its bloodiest games...
...season-the systems are still far too expensive to tempt consumers used to paying $100 or less for a game machine with plenty of good software. "We do not believe there is a mass market for any machine that costs over $200," says Dan Lavin, a senior analyst at Dataquest, a market-research firm based in San Jose, California. "None of these machines is going to sell in large volumes...