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To: Roader who wrote (21996)	9/5/1997 10:00:00 AM
From: BillyG	of 50808

Hitachi's multimedia plans.......... japanbiztech.com Hitachi Displays New Multimedia Equipment TOKYO -- Hitachi Ltd. held a private exhibition called Vision21 for multimedia-related equipment in Tokyo in late August. Among the products that Hitachi displayed were its Home multimedia server, which is used to store and play back digital videos, and the MPEG Camera, a pocket-sized camera. Those products are now in test production. Hitachi's Home multimedia server stores data obtained from digital camcorders or digital still cameras. Video data stored in the server is played back on a television screen. It includes a control board with a 32-bit RISC-type SH1 microprocessor. The MPEG Camera is a digital camera using the compressed MPEG1 method. It will be marketed in late 1998 or 1999, according to Hitachi. The product will likely use flash memory devices and is expected to feature an integrated, single-chip MPEG1 encoder IC and dynamic random access memory. A camcorder that uses 80mm rewritable optical disks also was put on display. That size optical disk was selected in part because 120mm disks are considered too large for convenient home use. The camcorder utilizes MPEG2 as a video compression method. The storage capacity of 80mm disks is expected to reach about 1.5GB, which would be sufficient to record a 30-minute video. Hitachi will start making the product around 1999. Hitachi also said that its exhibition included a DVD player that will start test production in the second quarter of 1998. The company now sells DVD players that are supplied on an original-equipment manufacturing basis. The audio output circuit of the new DVD player will use a 96kHz/24bit D-A converter, a Hitachi official said. This D-A converter is integrated into a MPEG2 decoder IC.

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