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Technology Stocks : Innovacom (MPEG), [announced single chip MPEG-2 encoder]
MPEG 0.0001000-80.0%Aug 29 1:17 PM EST

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To: George Thompson who wrote (5269)4/15/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Daniel  Read Replies (1) of 6297
 
> Nhiem, Muepo,;
> It seems to me that CUBE is distinguishing between different levels of compression by
> referring to "Broadcast" and "Professional" quality chips. Too bad. I always thought that
> "I" was a "Professional" in the "Broadcast" industry.

Might it be that "professional" quality is higher to allow for multiple compression/decompression cycles (e.g., for several editing steps), and that "broadcast" quality compression works fine if only compressed and decompressed once, but would degrade more if used several times?

Daniel
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