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To: Maya who wrote (46009)	10/12/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Samsung Demos DVD-VR Prototype At Korean Show 10/11/1999 DVD Report (c) 1999 Phillips Business Information, Inc. Samsung Electronics (Seoul, Korea) was set to demonstrate a prototype DVD-RAM digital video recorder at the 1999 Korea Electronics Show, held October 7-11 in Seoul. Samsung touted the demo as the first public showing of a device that's compliant with the DVD Forum's new DVD Specification for Video Recording (DVD-VR), which defines features including still picture, video slide show, and simple editing features. Samsung told Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper that it had filed for more than 130 patents on the unit worldwide after spending more than $4 million to develop the device. The prototype is built around a Samsung DVD-RAM drive and uses the DVxplore codec and ZIVA-3 MPEG decoder chips from C - Cube Microsystems (Milpitas, CA). According to C - Cube , high-level formatting for the DVD-VR spec is handled by the silicon, while low- level formatting is controlled by Samsung's drive. Once C - Cube received a copy of the DVD-VR version 1.0 spec, firmware changes allowed most formatting to be done in a single chip, Tim Vehling, director of marketing for C - Cube 's PC/CODEC division, told DVD Report. The DVxplore codec is also used by NEC's GigaStation, a digital video recorder that uses proprietary MVDiscs rather than DVD (DVD Report, August 2). NEC launched the GigaStation in late September with hopes of selling 4000 units in its first month of availability and 30,000 units in the first year, an NEC spokesperson said. Contact: Samsung Electronics, phone: 92 2 727 7856; C - Cube Microsystems, phone: 408-490-8000 ------------------ C-Cube , Samsung Team on DVD-RAM Recorder. 10/11/1999 Computergram International Copyright 1999 Information Access Company. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT 1999 ComputerWire, Inc. C-Cube Microsystems Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd last week demonstrated a consumer class DVD-RAM recorder which enables video to be recorded in MPEG-2 format. The firms claimed to be the first to demonstrate a workable technology utilizing the DVD Forum's DVD Specification for Video Recording (DVD-VR). The prototype was developed by Samsung and uses C - Cube 's Dvxplore and Ziva-3 MPEG codecs, which allow features such as slide shows, still frame capture and karaoke.