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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane Weatherly who wrote (48979)	4/10/2000 10:02:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Note that the Sony deal is for professional VTRs -- not consumer boxes. So far, anyway.... C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq:CUBE - news) today announced a collaboration with Sony Corporation to develop MPEG codec solutions for professional VTRs. The announcement follows Sony's commitment to a strategy of developing end-to-end open solutions based on MPEG standards and comes amid MPEG's growing acceptance as a professional recording format. The announcement also coincides with the work of the Pro-MPEG Forum, an industry association seeking to bring more MPEG-2 applications to broadcast systems. As part of the collaboration, C-Cube is developing an MPEG codec that preserves video quality as content makes multiple passes through an editing system, a process that normally erodes image quality. To prevent this generational image degradation, the new solution, an enhancement to the DVxpress-MX product family, implements 50 Mb/s encoding and decoding with 4:2:2 component and constrained byte per GOP (CBG). The new solution, which will offer all the features of DVxpress-MX including multiple-stream editing and realtime special effects, will be compatible with Sony's new MPEG IMX VTRs.