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Technology Stocks : Innovacom (MPEG), [announced single chip MPEG-2 encoder] -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex Dominguez who wrote (5176)	3/21/1998 3:56:00 PM
From: Alex Dominguez	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6297

GEorge Thompson,I was wondering if any of the products Innovacom is displaying at the NAB show had caught your attention?Any insights you might be able to add would be helpful since you are in the industry.Will you be at NAB??Anyone else going? thanks Alex

To: Alex Dominguez who wrote (5176)	3/21/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: mpegleg	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6297

> Alex(yet to see a single chip encoder on the market yet from anyone) Apart from C-Cube's, I have in front of me a clipping on Sony's single-chip MPEG-2 encoder. The part number is CXD1922Q, its sampling now, and has one of the widest search ranges I've seen -288 to +297.5 horizontal, -96 to +95.5 vertical. The part combines a complete encoder, system controller and motion estimator. Its packaged in a 208-QFP and is the perfect size to glue to your computer monitor to remind you that Innovacom can never be first. The Japanese have been showing MPEG-2 single chip encoding silicon at ISSCC every year. They're preliminary but at least they have real silicon. In the past there have been chips from NEC, Sony and Matsushita (Philips too, but since they don't do B frames it doesn't really count). Each of these companies has demonstrated far more than Innovacom. By the time the Innovacom encoder is done, it will be simply "another" single-chip encoder, not the "first". It remains to be seen if it will even be a "good" encoder. And of course there are other startups out there doing encoders too... Have to watch out for these guys as well.

To: Alex Dominguez who wrote (5176)	3/23/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 6297

One of your touted "partners" found somebody else with a single chip encoder... 03/23/98 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire) TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1998-- VisionTech and Sun (TM) to Display Single Chip MPEG-2 Encoder Technology at NAB Show '98 in Las Vegas Sun Microsystems, Inc. has selected VisionTech, Ltd. as a strategic developer, enabling the companies to closely collaborate on the development and marketing of a family of MPEG-2 based, digital video products for Sun PCI bus based workstations and servers. The new product family, developed and manufactured by VisionTech, offers broadcast quality encoding solutions at a fraction of the cost of competitor solutions. Sun's customers will benefit, for the first time, from new applications such as digital video editing/authoring, content creation and distance learning. The PCI MPEG-2 encoder will be showcased at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show on April 6-9, 1998, in Las Vegas in Sun's booth (S3428), and VisionTech's booth (M6971). .... Check out that search range! Hot!! "The chip's maximum speed of data encoding is 24 Mbits/s. The motion-vector search range is plus/minus 50 pixels horizontally and plus/minus 34 pixels vertically. Power consumption is 6 W." techweb.com