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To: Dinesh who wrote (49163)	4/29/2000 7:50:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Stream Machine selects a Philips chip for their reference design, a nothing PR.................................. electronicnews.com Stream Machine selects Philips' video decoder Apr 28, 2000 --- Furthering its vision of turning the PC into a time-shifting digital VCR, Stream Machine today announced it has selected Philips Semiconductors' SAA7114 NTSC/PAL video decoder for the newest version of its Insta-Replay PCI reference design, the Insta-Replay TV. This updated version includes a TV Tuner for Digital VCR/Time-Shift recording on a PC. According to a Showtime/Kagan study, at least 18 million households currently surf the Web on a PC while watching TV. The Stream Machine SM2210 MPEG-2 video codec used on the Insta-Replay TV enables recording at just 2Mbps. Stream Machine's MPEG-2 encoding technology requires less than half of one Gigabyte per hour, the company said. Also, because the Insta-Replay TV is a hardware-based MPEG-2 encode and decode solution, it consumes almost no CPU cycles during recording or playing back, the company said. The foundation for the Insta-Replay TV PCI reference design is the Stream Machine SM2210 MPEG-2 video encoder/decoder. The PCI card exploits the SM2210's combination of high image-quality at low bit rates to provide streaming video while consuming little system storage. The SM2210 supports real-time video encoding and decoding using a single-pass variable bit rate MPEG-2 encoding technique with proprietary pre-processing. And the SM2210 eliminates costly glue logic by directly interfacing with NTSC/PAL video decoders, such as the Philips Semiconductors' SAA7114, NTSC/PAL video encoders and PCI interface chips for PC applications.The SM2210 also cuts costs by requiring only 4 MBytes of SDRAM for full resolution NTSC 30 frames-per-second MPEG-2 encoding. Stream Machine selected Philips Semiconductors' SAA7114 video decoder to digitize the analog video signal and optimize video quality. This chip combines 9-bit analog-to-digital converters, a high-performance adaptive 4-line comb filter, an advanced up/down 2-D scalar, and a versatile data slicer for closed caption and teletext support as well as other features. The SAA7114 also provides hardware-based Macrovision detection and patented Real-Time Control,critical in personal video recording and time-shift applications. The SM2210 single chip MPEG-2 video codec is in full production and available now. Pricing for SM2210 is $49 in 4,000 unit orders and less than $30 in high volumes. The Insta-Replay TV reference design is available now and priced at $5,000.