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To: DiViT who wrote (46193)	10/18/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

(OT) MPEG-4 from Toshiba................... Toshiba signs Zuken to support video-phone chip launch By Yoshiko Hara EE Times (10/18/99, 12:17 p.m. EDT) TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. has tapped Zuken Inc. to support the launch next spring of its MPEG-4 chip, which it hopes to establish as the market's de factor solution for next-generation video phones. Toshiba's chip will integrate MPEG-4 encoding and decoding and graphic processing functions. Zuken, a leading supplier of CAD/CAM software, will provide technical support and know how to cellular phone makers looking to implement the chip into their products. Zuken will offer design know-how, verification and test tools for the chip when Toshiba begins shipments next spring. Next-generation wideband CDMA service is scheduled to begin in Japan in the spring of 2001, and manufacturers are already competing in the development of related technologies. Video phone prototypes that support a 384-kilobit/second transmission rate have already been demonstrated by NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT Docomo) and NEC Corp. MPEG-4 is the key technology for next-generation cell phones with image-transmission capabilities. Toshiba has been developing an MPEG-4 codec algorithm and is working to keep pace with MPEG-4 standardization work. Last June, Toshiba announced MobileMotion software products which allow MPEG-4 image transmission over the Internet. This past May the company announced new MobileMotion products which were fully compliant with the standardized MPEG-4 specifications. Toshiba's single-chip MPEG-4 device was developed using technologies developed for the MobileMotion products, and is expected to be used with one external synchronous DRAM to form the core of video cell phones.

To: DiViT who wrote (46193)	10/18/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Black-Scholes	Respond to of 50808

Does BskyB's STB use CUBE?

To: DiViT who wrote (46193)	10/18/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

What's your guess on rev/per box there? 25, 50 bucks?

To: DiViT who wrote (46193)	10/18/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Single chip scan converter......... semibiznews.com DVDO enhances single-chip scan converter Semiconductor Business News (10/18/99, 12:00:50 PM EDT) CAMPBELL, Calif.-- DVDO Inc., a vide-chip startup here, today announced a single-chip video-scan converter that allows 4:3 aspect ratio video sources to be centered within a 16:9 aspect ratio display system while still maintaining the correct 4:3 proportions. The DV102 follows the company's D101 as a member of DVDO's Image Enhancement Engine chip family. The DV102 interlace-to-progressive scan vonverter improves on the performance of the DV101 and tolerates low-quality VHS videotapes and off-air broadcasts with excessive noise. Like the DV101, the new chip uses DVDO's patent-pending technology, which performs over 6 billion arithmetic operations per second on the incoming video stream and uses the data from four video fields to determine exactly which portions of the image are in motion, what type of movement exists in each, and how best to generate a progressive image with maximum picture detail for that portion. The DV102 technology is targeted at display and projection systems, digital TV and HDTV-ready display systems, progressive-output DVD players, and high-resolution digital recording and playback devices. The DV102 accepts digital video from any standard video decoder or from an MPEG-2 decoded source, and outputs progressively-scanned RGB or Y-Cr-Cb. The chip is designed to directly control several industry-standard flat-panel display systems. Also, DVDO said the DV102 progressive output can serve as the source for higher-resolution display architectures such as CRT front and rear projection and direct-view systems, digital CRT monitors, LCD monitors and projectors, plasma displays, and projection systems based on Texas Instruments Inc.'s Digital Light Projection (DLP) technology. "The DV102 represents another step in the digital format conversion roadmap that DVDO has embarked on,” said Neil D. Newman, vice president of sales at DVDO. “The chip is now in production and we are very pleased with the initial customer acceptance of the product." The DV1012 is priced at $22 in 10,000-pieces quantities.