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Technology Stocks : Innovacom (MPEG), [announced single chip MPEG-2 encoder]
MPEG 0.0002000.0%Feb 6 9:30 AM EST
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To: Sean Lin who wrote (82)10/12/1996 11:20:00 AM
From: Richard Ogier   of 6297
 
Sean, Thanks for pointing out the Byte article and the MPEG web site.
Here are some paragraphs from an "InnovaCom Update" dated Fall 1996, available by calling investor relations:

There are four markets for MPEG-2 video encoding products:
1) The telephone and cable companies will transmit compressed video using just 5 percent of the bandwidth of the uncompressed signal without loss in picture quality.
2) The movie industry and other program content providers will use MPEG-2 for authoring DVD disks, placing up to six hours of encoded broadcast quality material on a single audio-sized disk.
3) Satellite transmission of video for direct television and other applications will permit up to 18 channels to be broadcast from a single satellite transponder where previously only one analog channel was broadcast.
4) DVD consumer products including players, TV set-top boxes, and camcorders, will incorporate the MPEG-2 recording function.

InnovaCom's first product, the DVRecorder, is a circuit board supported in a Pentium computer using Windows NT or Windows 95 operating systems. InnovaCom's DVRecorder provides MPEG-2 video encoding with sufficient compression to store six hours of video content on a single audio CD-sized DVD disk, for play back on a consumer electronics DVD player. The DVRecorder also provides MPEG-2 encoding to telephone and cable companies to transmit broadcast quality television over the equivalent of 64 voice telepone lines rather than the present analog television that requires the equivalent of 2400 voice telephone lines. The second product, DVImpact, is a single chip encoder scheduled to be available in early 1997. It provides MPEG-2 video encoding in a single chip. The DVImpact sets a new standard in integration and associated economy which opens new markets with unlimited potential, such as adding the recording function to digital video disk players, TV set-top boxes, and camcorders.
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