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ROCKY BALBOA 20th Century Fox, 102 mins, drama A DD 5.1 surround R 1.85 widescreen, 16:9 enhanced S THE HARDY BOYS/NANCY DREW MYSTERIES Universal, 650 mins, PG, mystery A DD 2.0 mono R 1.33:1 fullscreen FLUSHED AWAY Paramount, 81 mins, G, family A DD 5.1 surround R 1.85:1 widescreen, 16:9 enhanced S

Record From Vcr To Dvd

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New Drive For Dvd

HITACHI has unveiled details of a prototype DVD camera it plans to release in Australia later this year. The camera will allow the user to record up to two hours of video or 2000 still images onto DVD-RAM disk. The new format heralds even more features and convenience for the camcorder user.

Mini Towers New Additions To Range

COMPAQ has added three personal computers to its Presario series for home and small office users. The Presario 5716 and 5726 mini towers feature Intel Pentium III chips running at 450MHz and 500MHz respectively. The 5716 has a 100MB Iomega Zip built-in drive, 6X DVD-ROM drive and Aureal A3D In

Play It Again And Again With Dvd

TDK Electronics Corp is using advances in phase- changing recording mater- ials to create a 4.7Gb rewriteable DVD that can be played back on DVD-video players and computer DVD-ROM drives. The firm says it will target the new media for multimedia producers and DVD authoring professionals. The

Cinema Quality From A Disk

CREATIVE Pacific is selling its PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 digital video disk kit for $549. The kit, which allows PC users to watch DVD movies on their PC, includes a Creative DVD-ROM drive that is compatible with all CD formats, and the Dxr2 card, which is designed to bring cinema-quality video to the d

Biding Time As Disks Do Battle

WHEN I first saw a DVD-ROM drive demonstrated at a PC show in Sydney a year or so ago I was blown away by the possibilities. A single disk, smaller than a standard CD, could carry a whole movie and reproduce sound and video in a quality that left the trusty old video player for dead. Alternat

Dvd Set To Be The Next Format

SO CONFIDENT is Pacific Mirror Image of DVD's adoption, that the company, in the Melbourne suburb of Braeside, predicts 40 per cent of production within six months will be for the new format. The company was the first in Australia to press a Region 4 (Australia and the South Pacific) PAL DVD, an

Dvd War Leads To Solo Flights

DVD is the new digital storage format that is supposed to change our lives - but only if we can get the makers to agree to bring it home. The introduction of the successor to the compact disc has been set back by constant infighting over standards and copyright by the very people who are suppose

Doubts Cast On Dvd If Consumers Have To Pay

WILL DVD take a dive? It could depend on the willingness of consumers to pay for something they're used to getting for nothing, according to a DVD (digital versatile disc) market expert coming to Melbourne. Local multimedia developers will get a crash course in the new DVD technology at a semina

Dvd - The Next 'must Have'

DIGITAL video discs - DVD-ROM to its intimates - is the next wave of technology likely to hit your Mac, and your credit card. It has already taken off in the United States, where experimental Macintosh 5400s have been making the rounds demonstrating what is to come. Apple has said this set-up is