C-Cube may have a Toshiba win..........................
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RECORDABLE DVD APPS GET CLOSER
Plus other news from the CeBit trade show.
from the etown.com News Desk
HANOVER, GERMANY, March 18, 1999 -- Recordable DVD applications for consumers will take a big step forward at CeBit today as C-Cube Microsystems and Toshiba treat European showgoers to their first live demonstration of storage and playback of DVD-quality, MPEG-2 video via DVD-RAM.
At Toshiba's demonstration, attendees will see video transferred from a camcorder to a PC, spliced and edited in MPEG-2 with frame accuracy, then stored to a DVD. The demonstration will highlight the capabilities of C-Cube's DVxplore single-chip MPEG-2 codec (compression-decompression controller), Ulead video editing software and Toshiba's SD-W 1101 DVD-RAM SCSI drive.
DVxplore allows you to record hours of DVD-quality video from any video source, including television, VCR and DV or analog camcorder. You can then edit and play it back on a standard PC, and archive it to DVD discs, Web pages, email, CD-RW or PC hard drives.
Toshiba's SD-W1101 DVD-RAM SCSI drive offers rewriteable DVD capability, providing up to 2.6 GB per side storage capacity on what, according to the company, is the quickest rewriteable optical storage solution currently available.
"The CeBit demonstration is an example of the power of DVD now available to consumers," said Fermi Wang, general manager of C-Cube's PC/Codec Division. "It also illustrates how DVxplore technology is bringing the quality of DVD to new consumer entertainment products."
C-Cube's DVxplore is the only single-chip, MPEG-2 codec architecture capable of addressing the need for DVD-quality PC encoding applications, including digital VCR time-shifting, consumer video editing and Intelligent TV. With DVxplore, users of consumer video editing applications get easier video manipulation, improved image quality and interoperability of analog, DV and MPEG video formats. DVxplore's time-shifting capability enables PC users to digitally record a TV show while simultaneously playing back video from any point in the recording.
Consumers can also perform what were previously professional-level edits, including dual-stream MPEG-2 editing, single-stream DV25 editing and realtime special effects such as fades, wipes and dissolves. DVxplore's Variable Bitrate (VBR) recording lets users record hours of DVD-quality video to DVD-RAM, CD-RW or a PC hard drive. DVxplore also enables ultra-low-bitrate MPEG-1 encoding for video email applications and Web pages. |
