UK: NEW RECORDABLE DVD PLAYERS TO ARRIVE SHORTLY
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Electronics manufacturers will soon start selling digital systems that can record and playback television programmes signing the death knell of the VHS video recorder. The DVD format already stores 266 minutes of high-quality footage on a CD sized disc but can currently only playback and not record. Pioneer is developing a video recorder that can record up to six hours on a DVD disc that can be reused. It has been launched in Japan at a price of GB[pound] 1400. Philips is working on TiVo that uses a hard disk to store 30 hours of programmes digitally. As the price of hard disk space and processing chips, which turn a TV signal into a digital stream, fall the product becomes feasible. Philips and Pioneer agree that people want a physical recording form and that future products will be a combination of both formats in a single box.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: INITIATIVE OFFERS BACKING TO SMALL FIRMS
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Small businesses in the UK are to receive the support of a new scheme, the Big Small Business Initiative, in the effort to reduce the number that fail within their first five years of existence. Former American Express marketing director Alex Bennigson, head of the marketing consultancy Peppercorn, is leading the venture. It has the backing of other companies such as Visa, IBM, One2One and Parcelforce, together with Customs & Excise. Operating as a mentoring scheme, it will provide regional roadshows, a website with chatrooms, and a helpline operated by staff from various industry sectors. It will focus on firms with fewer than 50 employees, which account for 99% of the UK's 3.7mn companies, and it hopes to contact around 1mn within 12 months.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY TO BE LAUNCHED
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The Secretary for State for Education is due to announce on 15 February 2000 the first global electronic university. It hopes to increase the number of foreign students and gain GB[pound] 70mn in funds for UK universities, the same amount as overseas students contribute at present. The e-university will be independent and allowed to set its own fees. It will be based on a consortium of major UK universities which will purchase online course from other further education bodies. This material will be marketed as a superior UK product.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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