Mark's Monday Memo...
digitaltelevision.com
snipits:
- C-Cube's DVx-HD codec is said by customers to be pretty nice. It uses a different form of image segmentation (slices rather than blocks) and shares motion info between segments.
he's not entirely correct. It slices AND dices, depending on the firmware and number of chips used
For BS:
- Sales to U.S. dealers of (mostly non-H/DTV) projection TVs increased
8.8% for the first 34 weeks of 1999 over the same period in 1998. Sales of direct-view TVs increased 6.4% in the same period.
I find it interesting that those two growth rates are getting
closer together, although, of course, it may not mean much yet; big
sales come later in the year. Other interesting stuff: More VCRs
(including camcorders) have been sold to dealers than TVs, excluding
TV/VCR combos in both categories (15,709,080 vs. 13,519,219). If the
camcorders are excluded, TV wins, but not by much (13,519,219 to
12,834,037); at the rate things are going, that will soon change. Add
to the VCR figures another 2,616,693 TV/VCR combos, 42.9% more than in
the same period of 1998 (non-combo home decks are up 26% and camcorders are up 18.6%). It seems to me that this extraordinary growth of the already-huge base of ordinary VHS VCRs may help delay the transition to HD. |
