NTT Develops Single Chip MPEG Encoder
Martyn Williams, Newsbytes
09/11/98
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TOKYO, JAPAN, 1998 SEP 11 (NB). Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) [TOKYO:9432] and its NTT Electronics Corp. subsidiary have succeeded in developing a single chip MPEG - 2 video encoder.
The SuperENC chip, which NTT says is the smallest such encoder and most energy efficient, is capable of compressing standard video, in NTSC or PAL, into an MPEG - 2 compatible data stream with no additional supporting chips. NTT said high-definition video can be handled by the connection of multiple chips.
The company, Japan's largest telecommunications company, expects the chip will be used in equipment such as video conferencing systems, video transmission systems and consumer applications such as recordable DVD.
Sales of the chip, which has a sample price of 30,000 yen (US$227.50), will begin on September 21.
Exchange rate: $1 = 131.85 yen
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