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To: J Fieb who wrote (44653)	9/11/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: JEFF K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

It looks as if there is industry wide acceptance Professional MPEG Forum Achieves Major Success in Its First Year and Demonstrates End to End Interoperability in MPEG At IBC'99 AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 11, 1999--Twenty two companies took part in the Professional MPEG Forum's interoperability demonstration at IBC, where the benefits of MPEG were shown in every area of a digital facility, from acquisition through to the consumer. The successful demonstration at IBC follows the Pro-MPEG Forum's first such demonstration at NAB earlier this year, which was followed by a smaller display at the Montreux Symposium in June. IBC saw the Pro-MPEG Forum's first comprehensive end to end demonstration of professional MPEG interoperability in Europe, with a strong emphasis on MPEG products now being used in production and post-production - including a display by four companies involved in making editing products using MPEG. The core interoperability demonstration was supported by a series of technology exhibits showing how MPEG is developing for the future. Dr Nick Wells, chairman of the Professional MPEG Forum, outlined the success the Forum has achieved in its first year: "The Pro-MPEG Forum now has 46 members, with more companies joining all the time - and this demonstration, with so many manufacturers coming together, shows their commitment to build interoperability. I'm very pleased with the way manufacturers are actively co-operating to satisfy the major requirement for interoperability in the MPEG domain. In a remarkably short period of time, the Forum has achieved consensus between major manufacturers on MPEG interfaces, operating ranges and formats for file interchange." "Before IBC, many hours were spent on practical testing, evaluation and verification of the interfaces between equipment, which is further evidence of the high level of co-operation the Forum has engendered," said Dr Wells. The Pro-MPEG Forum's work with industry standards bodies was also outlined at IBC - in particular its new Code of Practice, which will facilitate further interoperability between manufacturers of MPEG equipment. This Code has already been submitted to SMPTE and has the potential to become a key industry standard in broadcasting. "MPEG's benefits and flexibility are starting to be realised across the full range of broadcast and professional video applications, and the new Code of Practice will act as a focus for the necessary work manufacturers have to do to achieve interoperability," said Dr Wells. He also outlined the work the Pro-MPEG Forum is planning to do next: "We'll be concentrating on providing more details on MPEG operating ranges - and we'll be lining up trials and demonstrations of file transfer interoperability. We also need to build consensus on areas where low bit rate MPEG is used in production, as well as setting up suitable test procedures to advance interoperability. We'll also be looking at architectures for operating in parallel with DV," said Dr Wells. Horst Schachlbauer, of the IRT in Germany and the former co-chairman of the EBU/SMPTE Taskforce on digital harmonisation, praised the Forum's work. "Bringing order to this new generation of broadcast technology is the highest priority on the agenda of end users. The Pro-MPEG demonstrations at NAB and IBC are an important step on the road to interoperability between MPEG products from the major broadcast equipment manufacturers. The work of the Professional MPEG Forum is essential and welcome - to make real the vision put forward in the final report of the EBU/SMPTE Taskforce," said Schachlbauer. CONTACT: Pro-MPEG Forum

To: J Fieb who wrote (44653)	9/11/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: JEFF K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I hope this means they can get this contract back Dell Chief Says ATI Lost Contract Due to Deadlines, Paper Says Toronto, Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- ATI Technologies Inc. lost a contract from Dell Computer Corp. because the maker of computer- graphics cards was having trouble meeting production deadlines, the Globe and Mail reported. Dell founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell, who said his company ``is a big customer of ATI and continue to be,' said it was scheduling, not technology problems, that prompted Dell to seek other suppliers for its OptiPlex computers. Jason Zandberg, an analyst with Pacific International Securities Inc., said it's difficult to believe ATI couldn't meet Dell's schedules because it is a large-volume company, the newspaper reported. ATI shares fell 12 percent Aug. 31 after the company said it lost the Dell contract. (Globe & Mail 9/11 B3 www.theglobeandmail.ca) Sep/11/1999 12:49

To: J Fieb who wrote (44653)	9/11/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Why no ventures like TiVo.....?? ...cuz the POS management would rather put the 30M in the bank, ...so they collect the interest, ...so they can make the numbers!!!!

To: J Fieb who wrote (44653)	9/12/1999 5:19:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

DVD-Rs coming this winter................... globalsources.com First batch of DVD recorders expected by yearend JAPAN ? The market for DVD-video recorders, designed as potential replacements for consumer VCRs, is slowly emerging with promises of releases from Pioneer and Sharp as early as two months from now. There is some confusion, however, over recording formats. The announcements were made at the IFA in Berlin, where prototypes were displayed. Pioneer Electronic was the first to announce plans for a new DVD video recorder. It will be using a new format, called the DVD-R/W, another candidate for the industry's standard rewritable DVD format. It will be released first in Japan this November once the details of a real-time [read/write] recording (RTR) format are nailed down within the DVD Forum this fall. Sharp, which also supports the DVD-R/W format, presented its prototype DVD-R/W video recorder. According to a company official, the Sharp recorder will hit the Japanese market at the end of this year priced in the $1,850 to $2,300 range. Introduction in the United States and Europe will follow in next year. The DVD-R/W format, however, is neither compatible with DVD+RW, which was developed by Philips to add video-recording capabilities to DVD players, nor with DVD-RAM, designed by the DVD Forum as a peripheral drive for PCs to hold rewritable applications. Pioneer's DVD-R/W video recorded disk will also not play back on the current generation of DVD players, due to the real-time recording format. DVD players will need software modifications, possibly a replacement of ROM, to maintain compatibility.

To: J Fieb who wrote (44653)	9/12/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 50808

Divi does Canal Plus............................ ibc-daily.co.uk Monday September 13, 1999 Canalsatellite picks Divicom Divicom (stand 1.262), a subsidiary of C-Cube Microsystems, announces that its MediaView MV40 program encoder has been selected for Canalsatellite, a Canal+ subsidiary. It would be used to maximise digital bandwidth and provide the highest quality service to more than a million subscribers. The MV 40 includes DiviTrack, a "lookahead" capability that enables it to maintain picture quality at low bit rates, offering television service providers more flexibility on programme bandwidth. Using DiviTrack statistical multiplexing, Canalsatellite intends to offer more channels of programming while maintaining or increasing the video quality of existing channels. Guy Huquet, technical director of Canalsatellite, says: "The open solutions from Divicom provide us with technology that could be integrated into the existing broadcast facility, without significant changes to other aspects of the architecture or a technology re-design."