Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: J Fieb who wrote (30216)	3/3/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Carnac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

No, the "shoddy" codec is the Trymedia. A constellation of little state machines from Hell, all on one chip, each doing their own little thing. This new chip sounds altogether different, more like Sony's encoder with the RISC engine (taken from their decoder) that drives hardwired function blocks. when you control the medium (tape,disc) 10% may not matter. DVx probably does have a quality advantage (B frames, re-encode, etc.), but not cost. Is our little French Butterball willing to put broadcast encoder features in a Consumer Electronics box ?