Iomega and motion-JPEG.........
Iomega to make a Buz
July 10, 1997
MacWEEK via Individual Inc. : Iomega Corp. is readying the Buz,
a hardware and software package that will combine SCSI
acceleration and JPEG compression.
Expected to be released in the fourth quarter, the $199 Buz will
include an audiovisual PCI card and a breakout box. It will use
Ultra SCSI-3 technology from Advanced System Products Inc. of
San Jose, Calif.
Buz will also include hardware-based JPEG video-compression
functions; Iomega said these will be software-switchable from 1:1
to 80:1 ratios. The device will capture 640-by-480, 320-by-240 or
160-by-120-pixel NTSC video at 30 frames per second with
44.1-kHz stereo audio, Iomega said. It will also support PAL
resolutions.
Included on the mouse-size breakout box, which will plug into the
PCI card's SCSI port, will be stereo audio in/out, composite video
in/out and S-video in/out, and an internal connector for future
OEM add-ons.
The kit, aimed at multimedia users, will come with HotShots, an
image-editing and cataloging program from PictureWorks
Technologies Inc. of Danville, Calif. Iomega will also bundle its
RecordIt audio-capture product (see 06.09.97, Page 17). The
company said it will bundle a video-editing package but has not
decided which one.
Iomega Corp. of Roy, Utah, can be reached at (801) 778-1000 or
(800) 697-8833; fax (801) 778-3190; info@iomega.com;
iomega.com.
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