| THE GREAT WRESTLING MATCH | ||||||||
| The Teams | The Stats | The Wrestlers | Tag Team | Corner Men | The Spin | Seat Costs | Available | |
| DVD | Plays full-motion video | DVD Consortium | Hitachi | Warner | "Dumb Technology," | $500 and up | Now | |
| at 500 lines of resolution, | Toshiba, Matsushita, | Phillips | Universal | i.e. only plays movies. | ||||
| better than VCR and laserdisc. | Pioneer, Sony, | Sony | PolyGram | Interactivity limited to | ||||
| Thomson, | JVC | Buena Vista (Disney) | CD-style number track | |||||
| "Gang of Ten" | Panasonic | starts. Multiple angles | ||||||
| view possible. | ||||||||
| DIVX | Same as DVD, but enables | Circuit City, | Zenith | Buena Vista (Disney) | "Another failed | $600 | 1998? | |
| rental of disks, has anti- | Entertainment law firm | Thomson | Paramount | format waiting to | ||||
| duplication and copyright | Ziffren, Brittenham, | Matsushita | Universal | happen." | ||||
| protection encoding. | Branca and Fisher | DreamWorks | ||||||
| DVD ROM | Plays DVD set-top movie | DVD Forum | Numerous | Software Publishers | Technology looking | $369 and up | Now | |
| disks, but also has a full range | Association | for a reason. Why | Needs: | |||||
| of interactivity. | have this incredible | Pentium 133 | ||||||
| A3 Dolby sound. | quality without a solid | 16 MB RAM | ||||||
| consumer base? | Windows 95 | |||||||
| 5 meg HD | ||||||||
| Graphics card | ||||||||
| Total: $1,369 | ||||||||
| minimum | ||||||||
| CD ROM | Advances in MPEG, JPEG, | Apple, IBM and | Too numerous | Consumers | Amount of full-motion | $90 for 2X | Now | |
| Quicktime and other standards | everybody else in the | to mention! | graphics are limited | CD-ROM. | ||||
| make full-motion video | computer business. | to 640 MB. | Computer | |||||
| possible. | System runs | |||||||
| appox. $900. | ||||||||
| DVD RAM | Erasable, recordable DVDs | Sony, Phillips, Hewlett | Matsushita | You try to keep up | $1,000 | Now | ||
| Packard, NEC. | Hitachi | up with it all. | ||||||
| DVD R | Write once, read many times. | Not compatible | $17,000.00 | Now? | ||||
| with DVD. | ||||||||
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