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To: kevin harney who wrote (62755)	8/19/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: Tobias Ekman	Respond to of 186894

Re:as one of the developers and holder of several patents for this technology-* WoW SI rocks and intc is rolling out of the station. regards Tobias

To: kevin harney who wrote (62755)	8/19/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: IanBruce	Respond to of 186894

Ian, you got your facts a little bit screwed up - 1) Firewire and Mpeg-4 are international standards. That means the specifications for the standard are made up by groups from companies and universities interested in making the technology feasible. Kevin, That is true. The International Standards Organization (ISO) adopted the joint proposal from Apple Computer Inc, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems to use Apple's QuickTime File Format as the starting point for the development of a unified digital media storage format for the MPEG-4 specification. All I said was that Apple developed QuickTime and FireWire (both Apple trademarks). From Dataquest: "MPEG's decision to utilize the QuickTime file format for the MPEG-4 specification has huge benefits for users and the industry", said Ralph Rogers, Principal Analyst for Multimedia at Dataquest, San Jose. "This strategy will leverage the broad adoption of QuickTime in the professional media space, speed the creation of MPEG-4 tools and content while providing a common target for industry adoption." On the subject of Firewire, I repeat, IEEE 1394 or "Firewire" was invented many years ago by Apple. Please refer to the April '97 issue of IEEE Spectrum or the 1394 trade Association at <http://www.firewire.org/> (BTW: the Featured Product there is "G3 systems made with Firewire"). Apple not only invented Firewire, it also initiated the IEEE standard which led the market adoption of this technology. Apple's been OEMing IEEE 1394 link and PHY chip designs since 1994. Firewire was approved as an IEEE standard in late 1995. From <http://www.adaptec.com>: "FireWire" is an Apple trademark. Apple, in the 1980s, was the originator of the technology which came to be defined as IEEE-1394. Companies that would like to include the "FireWire" name in a product which makes use of IEEE-1394 technology must sign a licensing agreement with Apple.-- If you have any further questions on this subject you can contact: Murray Slovick, (212) 705-7556 or email him at <m.slovick@ieee.org>. Eric Anderson, (408) 974-8187 or email him at <ewa@apple.com> The compression code you talked about was developed by Intel. I was one of the 30 people from Sarnoff labs that Intel hired to develop such technology. My information on Intel's original video codec was anecdotal -- but was personally confirmed to me in part by Intel's former director of multimedia marketing, as well as software developer John Van Ryzin. If it's in error, I apologise for relaying erroneous information. It was not my intent. Ian Bruce New York, NY