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From: Scott Cartier <scartier@vmlabs.com>
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Subject: FGN Online
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:39:12 -0700
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From FGN Online this morning.  Note the last sentence:

   New PSX2 Info?

   PlayStation: According to the Gaming Intelligence
   Agency, Phil Harrison, vice president of third-party
   relations and research and development for SCEA,
   recently visited Stanford University to demo the next
   generation PlayStation for a group of electrical
   engineering students. Harrison informed that the
   machine already had "two of three components
   necessary for DVD playback. A DVD drive and an
   MPEG-2 decoder." The third component was a
   "software interface," which Sony is working on but
   has not announced and will not be announced for a
   while. He then confirmed PlayStation 2 will support
   an "enhanced memory card, as well as additional
   media options." Harrison also said that Sony was
   "strongly considering" extending the Yaroze program
   to its new machine. 

While recently I have been doubting FGN Online's journalistic integrity,
this still gives us hope.

Scott