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To: rudedog who wrote (5609)	3/27/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 74651

Bill Gates speech at WinHEC. Impressive stuff. Read about the demo using C-CUBE MPEG-2 technology. C-CUBE was transcribed as "CQ." microsoft.com <<A system with this level of functionality would have cost about $100,000 a year ago, probably well over that, and this is going to debut at consumer price points, but what's really interesting is that we also have a DVR [DVD recordable] drive on the system. So just to review, we took the signal, we MPEG 2 video encoded it, we MPEG 2 stereo audio encoded it, we put it down on the hard drive. Then I ran a program that turned it into DVD video format, and then we copied it down. So I'm going to pop the DVR into the system here. So you can see this disk right here, here it is. And, as I said, we went from end to end here, and let's take a look at what happens. This is a consumer DVD video player, so we take the disk, we put it into the consumer DVD video player, and here's an act of faith. So what did we just do? In four minutes, we went from nothing, analog capture, MPEG 2, onto the hard drive, turned it into DVD video and burned it on a DVDR disk, put in a DVD video player and played it back. MR. GATES: I'm certainly surprised to see that CQ [C-Cube] is getting that chip out and getting it out at very low price points. So this is one capability that's going to actually appear faster than we would have expected.>>