81.   With their huge capacity for information, digital video disks are being put to all sorts of uses.

82.   Yet this bleak picture could brighten for all parties when and if the digital video disk makes its grand entrance.

83.   Last week the Singapore government responded by introducing new regulations, that will allow only licensed manufacturers in the tiny island republic to produce items such as digital disks.

84.   Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., a major Japanese consumer electronics maker, said Monday it will start selling its digital video disk players overseas.

85.   The Japanese unit of U.S. retailer Amazon.com expanded its online business Wednesday from selling books to music compact discs, digital video disks and videotapes.

86.   Hitachi said in a statement the double-speed digital visual disk read-only memory was an industry first.