Toshiba, Avid Working On DVD-Software Production
I wonder whose encoders?
August 13, 1998
Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation :
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Toshiba Corp. and Avid Japan Inc.,
the Japanese subsidiary of U.S.-based Avid
Technology Inc., have begun jointly developing and
taking orders for a DVD-software production system.
The new system includes Avid's software for
processing and editing video images on a personal
computer, and offers functions from 3-D title creation
to analog-to-digital signal conversion. [MPEG-2 encoding?]
A 15-million-yen price tag, which is one-tenth the
price of conventional systems, brings down the
overall cost of producing DVD software to 100 from
1,000 yen per disc.
Toshiba will manufacture the equipment, and
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. (7735), Toshiba
Engineering Corp. and Avid sales agent Ikegami
Tsushinki Co. (6771) will market the systems.
The companies are targeting 1998 sales of about
500 systems, primarily to small and midsize
software-creation firms.
(The Nikkei Industrial Daily Thursday edition)
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