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Latest FireWire Products Show Continued Adoption of the IEEE 1394 Standard Worldwide; New PCs, Notebooks, DVD/RW, Camcorders, Storage Systems Top Newest List.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002

The 1394 Trade Association today published a new list of 1394-equipped consumer and computer products from around the world. Included in the new products for September and October are desktop and notebook PCs, printers, storage devices, DVD/RW products, and digital VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier.  players. The recent list is highlighted by advanced storage products, including Maxtor Corporation's new One Touch 5000Xt and 5000DV hard disk drives, and ASUSTek's SCB-2408D External Combo Drive.

"The industry worldwide continues to adopt the FireWire standard across a very wide range of consumer and computer products," said James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association. "We are very pleased to see this overwhelming adoption, especially as we move into the next phase of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields.  1394 product development, which is focussing on the new `b' version, with its higher bandwidth and extended distances."

The 1394b version extends bandwidth to 800 Megabits/second immediately with a map to 1.6 Gigabits/second. Distances extend to 100 meters under the new version. Silicon is now available and first 1394b products are expected early in 2003.

The new list has desktops from Eizo, Epson, FOSA FOSA Friends of South Asia
FOSA Formula One Supporters Association (UK)
FOSA Federation Of Spine Associations
FOSA Front Office Service Activities
FOSA Flight Operations Support Annex
FOSA Federal Operational Staging Area
, Gigabyte, Fujitsu, and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98).

NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd.
, along with new notebook and portable PCs from Acer, Argonaut, ARM, Ashton Digital, ASUSTek, Brick Computer, Chem USA, CVT CVT Continuously Variable Transmission (automotive, sport, utility & hybrid vehicles)
CVT Center for Victims of Torture
CVT Continuing Vocational Training
CVT Certified Veterinary Technician
CVT Control Value Table
, Cybernet, FOSA, Epson, EUOCOM, Mars, Max Computer, Laird, Micro Express, Micron PC, NEC, PC Club, PC Notebook, ProStar Computer, Sager Midem Computer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Systemax, Toshiba, Twinhead, Victor JVC, ViewSonic, and PaceBlade.

Printers: from Epson, the PM-970C; from Canon, the Pixus F9000 Bubble Jet.

DVD/CD RW products: Amacom Technologies' Baby Combo Drive DVD/CD-RW; Hitachi's DVD Multi Recorder IVJ-RDVDC; and Pioneer's new DVR series, along with I-O Data's DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 DVR-iEH2.

Digital VHS Players: Panasonic's NV-DHE20 and NV-DH2.

Set Top Boxes: Panasonic's EP Station Series.

Digital Video Cameras: Panasonic's Digicam NV series, along with a wide variety of models in Canon's XV, FV, and IXY series.

Televisions: Hitachi's 51SWX20B 51-inch UltraVision integrated HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates ; and most models in Sanyo's VisionPlasma TV series.

Scanners: The GT-9800F and GT-9700F from Epson.

Workstations: The Sun Blade 150 Workstation

Digital Still Cameras: Fuji's FINEPIX S2.

Digital Video Cameras: Canon's Optura 200MC; JVC's GR-DVM96U Cybercam; and the DCR-PC120BT DV Handycam and DCR-TRV50 Digital 8 Handycam, both from Sony.

Workstations include the 3DBOXX S3s; Dell's Precision 530; Polywell's Poly930X4-2400 and Xi's 2200+ Mtower.

Host Adapter Kits: D-Link FireWire PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS.

(2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus).
 Adapter.

A complete list of all new 1394-equipped products is available at www.1394ta.org
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