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To: DiViT who wrote (47856)	12/9/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: Carnac	Read Replies (1) of 50808

Stream(ing) Machines (.. or S&M) streammachine.com Surprised you folks missed that one, or has the compression party moved to another forum ? Interesting that former S3 executives run both S&M and iC (pronounced "ick"? -- iCompression). Perhaps that's a sign of the times: encoder business is like the washed-out & commoditized graphics controller market. I suppose S&M will get the WebTV Digital VCR contract since they are the only ones confident enough to boast about their 2 mbit/sec performance in public. The bar has been lowered folks, thanks to the "number of hours of video storage" benchmark. Analogy: consumers judge PC's by the MHz. And where is the Philips/WebTV/Echostar 7200 with the 17 GB hard disk and analog-to-MPEG-2 capture feature ? I think it is a cool product, but a bit pricey ($500). No, Bellcore didn't write the MPEG-2 spec. S&M got some VLSI folks. (also, remember the company was founded by "So, long Chen" of Futletel fame, now VWeb). The video brains behind Bellcore went to Cube (that French guy -- Messier Hulot?) and the U. of Washington (M.-T. Sun). Bellcore has a small and obvious patent floating in the pool. (the scene from Caddyshack comes to mind :-) { Carnac has spoken }

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