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To: DiViT who wrote (33506)	5/29/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

If you patented it, your employer probably would have owned the patent. It probably would have gotten them in trouble for trying to monoplize the home movie market. ;-)

To: DiViT who wrote (33506)	5/29/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

More Project-X. No MPEG, just a MOT media processor............... ijumpstart.com ATLANTA - VM Labs expects its Project X technology to become ubiquitous in home video appliances within five years, CEO Richard Miller said yesterday, as the company announced the first of its hardware and software partners. "We expect substantially all future digital video products will incorporate the technology," Miller said. "It's like going from black-and-white to color." Following considerable skepticism in the games industry that VM Labs has the muscle to compete with Sony [SNE], Nintendo and Sega, Miller silenced doubters with several big-name deals. Motorola [MOT] will make Project X media processors, which replace the MPEG chip in digital video devices, and will also integrate them into a home entertainment platform, codenamed "Blackbird." Toshiba will incorporate the chip into all its DVD players in 1999, and Thomson Consumer Electronics, maker of RCA, GE and PROSCAN products, will develop Project X-based digital video devices, including DVD players and satellite receivers, also next year. On the software side, Activision [ATVI], Berkeley Systems, Capcom Entertainment, Fox Interactive, Hasbro Interactive, Psygnosis, THQ [THQI] and others plan to release titles for Project X platforms. Prices will be on par with DVD players, probably $299, Miller said. Project X will not compete on price with cheaper consoles: "We won't reach $149 soon." VM Labs showed MMWire a prototype Project X development system yesterday, and although it's too early to say how finished titles will look - none were demonstrated - the system at least lived up to its 3D graphics promises, which included real-time raytracing, bilinear filtering and perspective-corrected texture mapping. (VM Labs, Richard Miller, 650/917-8050)