1.   Analysts said C-Cube is facing increased competition from ESS Technology Inc. in the market for chips used in video disk players.

2.   And rechargeable batteries that typically power high-drain, high-tech devices like mini disk players and hand-held televisions are even more complicated.

3.   Before its purchase by General Electric, RCA had pulled back from the consumer electronics market after the failure of its video disk player.

4.   But Pioneer is trying to compensate by entering new businesses, including digital video disk players, car navigation systems, cable modems and digital satellite television receivers.

5.   Cirrus is the leading supplier of audio processing chips both for computers and consumer electronics devices, including digital video disk players.

6.   Donatiello said that so far interest in some of the other newer products, like digital video disk players for watching movies, had been limited.

7.   In the end, he adds, the price of the competing disk players might make more of a difference than the cost of the disks.

8.   Konka will also sell digital video disk players and two television set-top boxes.

9.   Patrick Ewing was fumbling with the earpiece for his portable disk player, trying to keep it in.

10.   Philips, for example, has been selling its video disk player, called CD-I, for nearly two years without much success.