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To: DiViT who wrote (45461)	9/27/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Black-Scholes	Respond to of 50808

Right on schedule. Here comes the short covering. Do I hear $46 today?

To: DiViT who wrote (45461)	9/27/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I've been wondering why Cube hasn't done this yet... ZAPEX BRINGING MPEG-1 BACK FROM THE DEAD 09/20/1999 Multimedia Week (c) 1999 Phillips Business Information, Inc. Zapex Research, Ltd., believes that while everyone else is talking about MPEG-2 in DVD players, personal video recorders, and video capture products, the consumer market for MPEG-2 encoding just isn't here yet. To back up this belief they are now shipping a new MPEG-1 chip that they say offers features far beyond what people expect from MPEG-1. The new Z1011 chip that features advanced pre- filtering, automatic scene-change detection, 3:2 pull-down, adaptive- field averaging, variable bitrate encoding, and a host of other goodies is aggressively priced at $15 even in low volumes. Partnering with Tawain company Winbond the companies will be providing the W99200F development evaluation kit that is currently the core of a recordable VCD product for China's estimated 2 million MPEG-1 users. The kit should provide all the components necessary for developers to get started on the road to extremely low-cost products based on MPEG- 1. Even though most people would say that MPEG-1 is dead and Zapex is crazy, the company makes a strong case for their decision. Zapex's advances bring the MPEG-1 picture quality up nearly to MPEG-2 levels and, there are literally millions of MPEG-1 users out there (mostly in China) who continue to buy the older technology, even with the availability of S- VCD , MPEG-2, and other, higher quality CODECs. Furthermore the company isn't fooling itself into thinking that this could last forever. They already have a high-end MPEG-2 product and plans for MPEG-4 silicon sometime next year. Zapex Research, John Zornes, Marketing Director, 650/930-1412