Let the hype begin...
03/23/98 Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire)
TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1998--
VisionTech and Sun (TM) to Display Single Chip MPEG-2 Encoder
Technology at NAB Show '98 in Las Vegas
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has selected VisionTech, Ltd. as a strategic developer, enabling the companies to closely collaborate on the development and marketing of a family of MPEG-2 based, digital video products for Sun PCI bus based workstations and servers. The new product family, developed and manufactured by VisionTech, offers broadcast quality encoding solutions at a fraction of the cost of competitor solutions. Sun's customers will benefit, for the first time, from new applications such as digital video editing/authoring, content creation and distance learning. The PCI MPEG-2 encoder will be showcased at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show on April 6-9, 1998, in Las Vegas in Sun's booth (S3428), and VisionTech's booth (M6971). ........
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Check out that search range! Hot chip!!
From a previous TechWeb article...
techweb.com
"The chip's maximum speed of data encoding is 24 Mbits/s. The motion-vector search range is plus/minus 50 pixels horizontally and plus/minus 34 pixels vertically. Power consumption is 6 W." |
