Interactive Digital Video. If you decode MPEG-2 with your 400Mhz CPU, your CPU is basically consumed. It can't do anything else, and an expert could point out a few flaws in the video. But the video looks great, a consumer would love it. But don't click your mouse, not enough headroom to run anything else. Like accessing the web in a window. Your video picture will start jerking/freezing.
The real market for removeable storeage in the PCs is recordable digital video. To record video in, real time, at MPEG-2 quality, you will need hardware for the forseeable future. Weddings(And everyother event that people like to have pictures of) will be filmed and recorded. Do you want to save a buck and have the picture jump?
When I bought C-Cube, it didn't have anything to do with the PC market, M-JPEG was only a small part of sales. Now DVD is 3% of sales. It still isn't a PC supplier company.............................................
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1998--[ Celerity Systems, Inc. ] (Nasdaq: CLRT), a leading international provider of interactive video products and services, today announced that it has selected KID Design & Development to design the case and remote control for its T 6000 advanced digital set top box. KID Design & Development, a division of Philips Service Solutions Group, has won industry awards for several of its concepts, including television sets, digital set top boxes, and other popular consumer electronics devices.
"We have been working successfully with KID over the past several weeks to develop and finalize a design for the T 6000 advanced digital set top box, which we think will be attractive, highly functional, and have all the flexibility needed to continue to evolve and grow over the years," said Ken Van Meter, President & CEO of Celerity. "It was especially productive to have one of the most outstanding consumer design firms in the country located right here in Knoxville, which has allowed us do a high quality design on a very tight schedule. By reducing cycle time and having key staff involved throughout the process, we've also been able to substantially reduce the design costs for the project. Thanks to the fine cooperation between KID and our Engineering team, the T 6000 project is on track and will be ready for production in the third quarter of this year."
"We are very pleased to be working with Celerity Systems," said John Bocko, KID's General Business Manager. "It's exciting to partner with a company like Celerity because of the high-tech innovation and explosive growth it brings to our table. It is clear that they are moving into the big leagues, and we are glad to be a part of their growth in the interactive video services industry. We hope to do several projects with them in the future."
Celerity Systems, Inc. has successfully deployed interactive video services systems in fourteen cities in four countries, and is a manufacturer of interactive digital video servers and digital set top boxes. Celerity is also a systems integrator, and brings guaranteed, high-quality, fully functional systems to its customers all around the world. Celerity has strategic relationships with a number of companies, including [ FORE Systems ] , Minerva, Speer Communications, and Strategic Group.
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