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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (31619)	3/30/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Mitsubishi and IGS Offer Arsenal of Applications Via New Flexible Set-Top-Box Platform Monday March 30, 8:10 am Eastern Time biz.yahoo.com Company Press Release Reference Design Offers OEMs the First Set-Top-Box Solution with Embedded DRAM and Direct TV Output CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998--Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. and IGS Technologies Inc. today announced the first truly flexible set-top-box platform, providing OEMs with a grab bag of solutions. Unlike other set-top boxes which come with a standard group of functions, the Mitsubishi/IGS product provides two core applications -- e-mail and Web browsing -- plus the capability of evaluating and adding others. Additional features include DVD, video phone, audio/video controller, Web casting (streaming television channels through the browser), and picture in picture. ... Features of the CyberPro2010 are: * TVDirect Encoder with Flicker-Free Technology On-chip enhanced NTSC/PAL TV encoder with proprietary flicker-free technology; single oscillator for worldwide TV outputs including NTSC, PAL, SCART/RGB, S-Video and Composite; High-quality video and text output on TV. * DuoVision(TM) Support Simultaneous display of graphics on CRT and video on TV; Also, simultaneous display of video and graphics on both CRT and TV. * High-Performance 64-bit Graphics Accelerator 64-bit GUI Accelerator, 200-MHz RAMDAC, clock; EDO support for 30-60ns EDO DRAMs from 1-MB to 4-MB memory. * Play back MPEG movies on TV The CyberPro2010 can play back MPEG movies from any MPEG decoder directly on TV as a video window or full screen without any degradation of video quality. CyberPro2010 provides horizontal and vertical interpolation with edge smoothing, which reduces motion artifacts and blocking -- so that MPEG movies can be scaled up or down, to NTSC or PAL TV output size. * Video phone on TV The CyberPro2010 provides multiple video windows support for video phone applications. Video camera and TV tuner inputs are supported directly via dedicated video port. The video capture and playback hardware uses a very high-quality filter for scaling down live video and provides good quality video on TV for videophone applications.

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (31619)	3/30/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

More from WinHEC. This is the seminar on Digital TV, MPEG-2 Reception, Video, and Display Quality. The speakers were from MSFT, National, Panasonic, S3, Philips, and elsewhere. Index of the presentation slides: microsoft.com DirectShow is the key: microsoft.com National pushes a hybrid HW/SW approach: microsoft.com Hybrid performance: microsoft.com Panasonic HDTV MPEG-2 decoder. It uses lots of Rambus RDRAM. Decoder block diagrams are shown below: microsoft.com microsoft.com microsoft.com microsoft.com Human perception. There is more to HDTV than lots of lines: microsoft.com