John, what do you make of the slew of encoder announcements that you posted?
It looks like the Heuris and OKI encoders are both based on the Reimay (a distant relative of yours?!) encoder developed by NTT. Zapex claims that it developed its own algorithm to run on a DSP . . . I suspect they are using someone else's algorithm. Excerpts of your post are reprinted below.
<<MPEG encoder vendor HEURIS (formerly HEURIS/Pulitzer) has announced its
first MPEG-2 solution, MPEG PowerBox, a high-end MPEG-2 turnkey solution
based on the Reimay MPEG-2 hardware encoder jointly developed by Nippon
Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) and its subsidiary, NTT Electronics.>>
<<Zapex Technologies, Inc. has also joined the MPEG-2 migration with the release of
the ZX-2000G, a real-time MPEG-2 compression engine. Based on Zapex's own
MPEG-2 compression algorithm and high-performance Digital Signal Processor
(DSP) chip,>>
<<OKI Electric Industry, Ltd., which released the first products in its YS3000 series
of MPEG-2 encoding systems in mid-1996, has announced the YS3110, a
desktop-based multichannel MPEG-2 codec that adds technology developed in
partnership with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) to provide multichannel,
real-time MPEG-2 encoding and decoding,>> |
