Toshiba demos applications using C-Cube DVD-RAM chip
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Story posted 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST, 3/18/99
HANNOVER, Germany -- Visitors to CeBIT today will see Toshiba
Ltd. demonstrating the storage and playback of DVD-quality,
MPEG-2 video via DVD RAM from C-Cube Microsystems Inc.
At the Toshiba demonstration, attendees will see video transferred
from a camcorder to a PC, spliced and edited in MPEG-2 with frame
accuracy, then stored to a DVD disk. The demonstration will highlight
the enabling technologies including C-Cube's DVxplore single-chip
MPEG-2 codec, Ulead video editing software, and Toshiba's SD-W
1101 DVD RAM SCSI drive.
C-Cube's DVxplore solution is the industry's only single-chip,
MPEG-2 codec architecture capable of addressing the market for
DVD-quality PC encoding applications, the company claims. It allows
users to record hours of DVD-quality video obtained from any video
source, including television, VCR, DV camcorder or analog
camcorder.
"The CeBit demonstration is an example of the power of DVD now
available to consumers," said Fermi Wang, general manager of
C-Cube's PC/Codec Division in Milpitas, Calif. DVxplore's
time-shifting capability enables PC users to digitally record a TV
show while simultaneously playingback video from any point in the
recording. It also gives consumers the ability to perform editing
functions that were previously avaliable only to professional-level
editors, he added. |
