71.   Thomson is among the electronics firms planning to produce the next generation digital video disc players, which are capable of delivering high quality pictures and sounds.

72.   Thomson cited strong sales of products like digital video discs and digital decoders.

73.   Toshiba will also start selling desktop computers installed with digital video disc players both in the United States and Japan in November, he said.

74.   An X-rated digital video disc allegedly showing a Taiwanese woman politician and her married lover has turned up in a massive haul of pirated DVDs here, reports said.

75.   Digital video discs, which can hold a far larger volume of information than conventional discs, are seen as the next-generation storage medium for multimedia devices.

76.   The movie industry claims sales of of digital video discs and video cassettes, overseas licensing and others still puts them on top.

77.   The Toshiba-Matsushita standard is competing with a digital video disc standard offered by Sony Corp. and Phillips Electronics NV.

78.   Toshiba vice president Masaichi Koga dismissed Sony claims that the format required expensive new production technology for digital video disc players.

79.   It hoped to apply technical expertise in the hard disk production to a future launch of digital video disc and magneto-optical disk products.

80.   Japanese game machine maker Sega Enterprises Ltd. said Thursday it would use the digital video disc standard proposed by Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.