Nice customer list for The DVxplore chip..........................
Peripheral cards from video vendors such as Diamond Multimedia, STB, ATI Technologies, and Creative Labs, and DVD video players from vendors like Sony, Pioneer, and Toshiba, will hit the market by Christmas of 1999, Henry said.
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C-Cube Chip Makes Digital Recording Easier
(10/30/98 4:43 p.m. ET)
By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb
Recordable MPEG-2 video, the high-resolution video format used in DVD, will take a big step toward mass availability and acceptance when C-Cube announces a single-chip MPEG-2 codec on Monday.
DVxplore will make MPEG-2 recording and editing affordable for the PC user for the first time. Previous MPEG-2 editing systems from C-Cube have run into the thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars, according to Patrick Henry, director of marketing for C-Cube.
The DVxplore chip will be used in both PC cards and home DVD video players. Peripheral cards from video vendors such as Diamond Multimedia, STB, ATI Technologies, and Creative Labs, and DVD video players from vendors like Sony, Pioneer, and Toshiba, will hit the market by Christmas of 1999, Henry said.
Peripheral cards with the DVxplore chip will be able to record both digital video streams, such as MPEG-1 and DV25, the standard used in digital camcorders, and an analog stream coming from a television or VCR. The DVxplore chip can convert these formats to and from MPEG-2, so a signal from a VCR can be converted from analog to MPEG-2 and saved on a DVD-RAM disc.
In addition to the hardware, C-Cube will provide editing software able to input, convert, edit, and save the video streams.
C-Cube is targeting four markets for the DVxplore chip: retail products, OEM bundles in the build-to-order computer market, set-top boxes with storage, and bundling with a DVD-RAM drive.
The company already makes MPEG-2 decoder chips for DVD playback on PCs. "I think that high-quality video is becoming more important on the PC as a media type," said Henry.
The DVxplore chip will begin shipping to OEMs this quarter. Products based on DVxplore are anticipated to hit market by the second quarter of 1999; they will start around $299 initially, and could be as low as $199 by Christmas, said Henry.
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