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To: .com who wrote (34131)	7/1/1998 9:06:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

GI is a C-Cube customer and a Divicom competitor. They use C-Cube's encoders.

To: .com who wrote (34131)	7/2/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

4:2:2 MPEG-2 encoders to be a standard.............................. tvbroadcast.com Numerous possibilities exist for exchanging programming and related data as bit streams. It's a complex subject. Beyond the communication layers are issues of system management, compression, and exchange of data about the programs (metadata). There was a Max Escher drawing somewhere in almost every seminar presentation. Much of the task force work has focussed on making practical selections from among the many possibilities. Take the video compression choices for instance. Horst Schachlbauer from the EBU reported that DV and MPEG-2 4:2:2 Profile@ML would likely be the recommended standard definition compression schemes for networked exchanges. Agile decoders can provide bridges between them. They are open and publicly documented. Motion JPEG was not selected because there is no agreed upon implementation, and Digital Betacam was omitted because it is proprietary and the manufacturer has no plans for public documentation. Even though DV and MPEG 4:2:2 are the recommended ways of compressing video for networking, Motion JPEG, Digital Betacam, and a host of other special purpose approaches are still important. There are provisions in all the Task Force's work for identifying and transporting unique material. Whether data is general or special purpose, identification is important--what is this bitstream? what's in it? where do I find its various components? what do they mean? who owns them? SMPTE has agreed to become the international registry agent that will manage this information and make it available to all who need it.