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To: BillyG who wrote (31724)	4/1/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

ATI Windows CE settop design. And Sega's next machine will have a DVD-ROM drive................................... ijumpstart.com Bandai Digital Entertainment, which announced plans to exit the hardware business earlier this month, is the only company that has made public plans to ship a Windows CE title. The publisher expects to ship a Windows CE version of DigiMon, the follow-up to the virtual pet game Tamagotchi, in May, said John McGanty, Bandai's director of software business. Bandai expects to bundle the product with Windows CE devices and is not planning a Windows 95 version of the title. If Sega is able to generate developer interest in Katana - its upcoming 128-bit Windows CE - based console, due out this Autumn - that could be good news for ATI. Many industry watchers expect Katana to include a DVD-ROM drive. If it does, developers creating titles for the ATI platform should be able to port them to platforms based on the ATI reference design at little additional cost.

To: BillyG who wrote (31724)	4/1/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

HP systems for evaluating video quality of compressed video........ newsalert.com <<The first demonstration includes the Objective Picture Quality Analyzer (OPQA), which was developed by the research laboratory of KDD Japan and represents a completely source-independent, real-time solution. Perceived picture-quality degradation can be assessed using any video source selected by the customer, including a live link, permitting customers to analyze their own actual video content. KDD's OPQA methodology is based on key characteristics of human visual perception. OPQA performs a precise comparison between the original and reconstructed video, and then calculates a reference value based on a set of weighted factors that incorporate the various elements and processes used by the human eye to "build" and evaluate a video picture. OPQA can be used to evaluate MPEG video codecs, monitor video transmissions, and compare and benchmark video quality across vendors. The second demonstration features compressed domain quality assessment, a technology developed by HP Labs that allows assessment of picture-quality degradation by analyzing the MPEG-2 video data stream in the compressed domain. Compressed domain quality assessment does not require access to the original, uncompressed video, permitting objective quality measurement at any point in the transmission chain. Compressed domain quality assessment analyzes any MPEG-2 encoded video data stream, and computes and graphs distortion introduced by the MPEG compression process. >>